Re: HELP:: WHAT ARE TUXEDO and ECOTOOLS

In article d06f1fcc_at_#mansap, "Jack Smith" <mansap_at_ix.netcom.com> () writes:
> HI, I will really appreciate if someone explains me about
> TUXEDO and ECOTOOLS. I believe they r data modelling tools.
> Some reference and pointers will be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards.
> Jack
>

Excuse the spelling.

I'm not sure what ECOTOOLS is, but Tuxedo is a Transaction Monitor. It will let you create programs that call other programs, called services, that might be on other machines. If the services are busy, Tuxedo might start copies, or re-route your requests, etc. So you can have a Tuxedo client on Windows call 5 programs on Unix, NT, or whatever, at the same time, and they each can be talking to one or more databases, etc. If one machine goes down, requests can be queued up, or re-routed, or whatever you want. If handles the queuing, routing, etc. for you. The services can also send messages to each other, so even if you are adding an extra layer in the normal client-server model, you can move alot of the work to the back-end, but not necessarily the database, so your front-end can go on to the next bit of work, and if something happens it can be notified. So from the users perspective things are fast, even if work is still being done behind the scenes. This is one way of making something "3-tier." You can update the middle-tier services without updating the clients, so some of the support costs might go down.

So it allows you to create very large, highly reliable programs.

Tuxedo is sold by BEA Systems.

Good luck,
Mark McNulty
Quadris Consultant
mmcnul_at_quadris.com

Note- these views are mine and not those of JP Morgan or JYACC. Received on Mon Feb 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CET