TRANSACTION MONITORS

EW>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.

EW>There is a fourth Vendor, Bull, who offer a greatly enhanced version of
EW>Tuxedo called BOS/TP - there are other Tuxedo licencees as well (ICL
EW>and UNISYS spring to mind).

Eion - the point was that there are three techologies, wwith all other versions - such as your employer's - being derivatives of such.

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

Not so new - Top End and Encina built XA support into their initial offerings. In fact, that's all Encina supports, which locks it out of a lot of prospective sights.

jh (ex-NCR!)

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