TP Monitors and Forms Scalability

Can someone tell me what TP monitors do and how they work?

I have never used and know very little about TP monitors (Eg: Tuxedo) and how they work in conjunction with an oracle7 server and an application.

I only have a vague idea about their purpose. I'm led to believe they provide scalability in a 3 tiered C/S environment by queuing messages (transactions) for asynchronous processing by the server.

What do they do?

Can you make use of them with existing applications if you want to improve the scalability of a conventional Oracle Forms 2-tiered app? Eg: How do you make a Forms 4.5 (Win95) integrated app running over a WAN to a central unix server scale up to 1500 concurrent users?

Can you just plug in a TP monitor between your app and the server? Or does the app have to be specifically written to communicate with the TP monitor?

Will Oracle8 with its message queuing features provide similar scalability as a TP monitor such as Tuxedo/Q?.

Any light you can shed on this would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Mal. Received on Mon Aug 11 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT