Re: TRANSACTION MONITORS

jared.hecker_at_factory.com (Jared Hecker) writes:
>There are only three vendors of this type of product at this point
>(Transarc, USL/Nvell and NCR); they all provide proprietary API's. The API
>is the point of the product; it provides access to the function libraries
>these vendors are selling you.
There is a fourth Vendor, Bull, who offer a greatly enhanced version of Tuxedo called BOS/TP - there are other Tuxedo licencees as well (ICL and UNISYS spring to mind).

There is however a standard interface being drafted at the moment called "XATMI" (X/Open Application Transaction Management Interface) which will standardise the TM<-->application interface - it is just reaching X/open Preliminary Specification Stage.

It is worth noting the similarity of the names "XATMI" and "ATMI" (the Tuxedo /T interface) - this helps one to understand the basis of the XATMI interface!

Eoin.

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