What is Glue42 Enterprise?
Architectural Diagram

How It All Works
The main components of Glue42 Enterprise are Glue42 Desktop and the Glue42 Gateway. These two components can be packed together or deployed independently.
Glue42 Desktop
Glue42 Desktop is an Electron based application which offers APIs for:
- Loading the list of application configurations for the current user;
- Managing the applications life-cycle (starting/stopping apps);
- Hosting web apps in desktop windows;
- Sticking windows together;
- Advanced window management - Workspaces UI
- Saving and restoring layouts - Layouts
- Synchronizing cross-application data by publishing and subscribing for updates of data objects - Shared Contexts
- UI based on Shared Contexts - Channels
- Registering and invoking methods - Interop
The Glue42 APIs are available in JavaScript/TypeScript (as well as through lightweight Glue42 React and Angular wrappers) for web applications and in .NET, Java, and COM/VBA for desktop applications.
Glue42 Desktop is highly customizable and many of its features can be enabled, disabled or re-configured.
Glue42 Gateway
The Glue42 Gateway is a transport with domain specific protocols. It enables the communication between applications running in Glue42 Enterprise. By default, it uses WebSockets for delivering messages to applications. Other options are also available upon request. The Glue42 Gateway is written in Clojure and can be transpiled to Java and JavaScript.
Application Stores
Glue42 Enterprise loads the list of applications available to the user from a pre-configured set of application stores. They can be of different type:
- Local stores - definitions are read from folders on the machine that is running Glue42 Enterprise;
- Remote stores - definitions are fetched from a REST service;
To add an application to Glue42 Enterprise, you need to add it to an application store.
Connectors
Glue42 Enterprise comes with a set of Connectors for integrating third-party applications (MS Office, Bloomberg, Salesforce, etc.) with Glue42 enabled applications. The Connectors expose functionalities provided by a specific third-party application, so that they can be re-used in Glue42 enabled apps.The Glue42 Excel Connector, for instance, allows applications to open an Excel sheet, populate it with data from the application and receive updates when the data in Excel is changed.
Additional Services
Notifications
The Glue42 Notification Service (GNS) handles notifications from GNS servers and delivers them to the end-user via a notifications UI.
Global Search
The Global Search performs global searches on all defined search providers and returns consolidated results to the user.
Metrics
Extensive Metrics for tracking the user journey can be collected from all Glue42 enabled apps and published to a data center.