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BEA Tuxedo is a proven platform for building rock-solid, easy-to-manage e-commerce systems that enable businesses to rapidly launch new products and services to maintain their competitive advantage.

Overview
Today's business environment demands Web and e-commerce applications that will accelerate your entry into new markets, help you reach and retain customers, and enable you to introduce new products and services quickly. You need a proven, reliable, and scalable e-commerce transaction platform - one that can connect and empower all types of users, while integrating all of your corporate data and applications in a powerful, flexible end-to-end e-commerce solution. BEA Tuxedo takes the time, complexity, and risk out of developing and deploying this solution. BEA Tuxedo provides the E-Commerce Transaction Platform™ that businesses count on to support their distributed, mission-critical applications.

Benefits

• Business-critical reliability BEA Tuxedo has been tested and proven in thousands of the most demanding mission-critical applications.

• Virtually unlimited scalability As demands increase, additional servers can be added on the fly without disrupting on-going operations.

• Simplified development You can focus on business applications while BEA Tuxedo handles the underlying complexity of distributed applications.

• Flexible deployment and reconfiguration Systems can be deployed to support today's requirements, and reconfigured in real time as requirements change.

• Unparalleled high-performance BEA Tuxedo is designed for large-scale Web-to-mainframe e-commerce solutions.

Supported Platforms
Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000
Hewlett Packard HP-UX
Sun Solaris
IBM AIX
RedHat Linux
NCR MP-RAS
Compaq Tru64 UNIX

System Requirements

System requirements vary by platform. In general, the hardware requirements are:

Servers:
Disk space: 50-100Mb
Memory: 16-32Mb

Clients:
Disk space: ~14Mb
Memory: 16-32Mb

Network support:
TCP/IP

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Developing customized software for today's e-commerce business requirements is a tremendously complex task. Applications can span everything from the Web to the mainframe and require very specific, expensive, and hard-to-find expertise. BEA Tuxedo enables your "experts" to focus on your business-specific applications by providing an infrastructure that handles all the underlying complexities of distributed, cross-platform application development. Your developers can focus their attention on creating business applications that address your unique requirements.

Product Details

Today's business environment demands Web and e-commerce applications that will accelerate your entry into new markets, help you find new ways to reach and retain customers, and allow you to introduce new products and services quickly. To build and deploy these new solutions, you need a proven, reliable e-commerce transaction server - one that can connect and empower all types of users, while integrating all of your corporate data, mainframe applications, and other enterprise applications (such as ERP) in a powerful, flexible end-to-end e-commerce solution. It must also offer the performance, scalability, and high availability to handle your most critical enterprise-scale computing.

BEA Tuxedo provides a number of features critical to developing and deploying mission-critical e-commerce applications across distributed, heterogeneous computing environments. These include:

Distributed Transaction Management
E-Commerce applications are all about managing distributed transactions and ensuring that requests are properly executed. BEA Tuxedo allows clients and servers to participate in a distributed transaction that involves coordinated updating of multiple databases. BEA Tuxedo's sophisticated transaction management helps ensure that all databases are updated properly, or will rollback the databases to their original state, assuring that data integrity is maintained despite component failures.

High Availability
Ensuring constant access to e-commerce applications is a key feature of BEA Tuxedo. System components are constantly monitored for application, transaction, network, and hardware failures. When a failure occurs, BEA Tuxedo will logically remove that component from the system, manage any necessary recovery procedures, and re-route messages and transactions to surviving systems - all transparently to the end-user and with no disruption in service.

Dynamic Workload Balancing
BEA Tuxedo manages unexpectedly high demand by automatically spawning and terminating application services as the system load dictates. BEA Tuxedo balances the workload among all the available systems to ensure that they are all evenly utilized, whether the services are on the same node or spread across nodes.

Data Dependent Routing
With DDR, BEA Tuxedo can route messages based on their context. This enables efficient processing of transactions and provides the highest performance.

Transaction Queuing
Many e-commerce applications require flexibility in how and when transactions should be processed or deferred. BEA Tuxedo provides transaction queuing to allow distributed applications to work together in an asynchronous, "connection-less" fashion. Transaction queuing is a modular store-and-forward capability that prioritizes queues and defers processing based on various criteria such as message context, message content, and time of day.

Event Brokering
BEA Tuxedo provides a transactional event system based on the publish-and-subscribe programming model, which is useful in e-commerce applications in which a user or program needs to be notified of an event in order to make a decision. It allows for posting of system or application events that can be subscribed to by any authorized client, server, or application component in the system.

Security
BEA Tuxedo security features authentication, authorization and encryption (known as LLE Security) to ensure data privacy when deploying BEA Tuxedo applications across networks. BEA Tuxedo also provides a plug-in framework to support Public Key Encryption, Digital Signatures, and non-BEA security products for networked applications, enabling BEA Tuxedo to work within existing corporate security standards.

Application Parallelization
BEA Tuxedo maximizes the performance of e-commerce applications by dynamically replicating distributed applications throughout the network. BEA Tuxedo enables applications to handle requests in parallel and process transactions simultaneously on different, distributed nodes.BEA Tuxedo maximizes the performance of e-commerce applications by dynamically replicating distributed applications throughout the network. BEA Tuxedo enables applications to handle requests in parallel and process transactions simultaneously on different, distributed nodes.

Application to Transaction Manager Interface (ATMI)
E-Commerce applications span systems from Web browsers to mainframes. ATMI provides a consistent application programming interface across all of the 50+ hardware and operating system platforms that BEA Tuxedo is ported to. ATMI enables developers to write BEA Tuxedo applications regardless of the hardware that the program will reside on. Having a consistent interface vastly simplifies the programming effort for e-commerce applications.

Web-based Administrative GUI
E-Commerce applications are inherently difficult to manage because they tend to be geographically dispersed. BEA Tuxedo's Web-based graphical administration provides sophisticated application management tools and interfaces into the leading network and system management products to simplify e-commerce administration.

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