Compaq Reliable Transaction Router manual RTR Interfaces

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RTR Interfaces

RTR provides interfaces for management and application programming.

You manage RTR with a management interface from the RTR management station. The management interfaces are:

•The command line interface or CLI

•The browser interface

The application programming interfaces (APIs) are:

•The object-oriented API for C++ programming, available with RTR Version 4.0. Use this API for all new development and, where appropriate, for new work on existing applications.

An application can contain both object-oriented classes and portable API calls. This API can be used to implement applications on all platforms supported by RTR.

•The RTR API for C programming, available with RTR V3. This interface is also called the Portable API because it can be used to implement applications on all platforms supported by RTR.

•The OpenVMS API containing OpenVMS calls, available with RTR V2. This API, supported on OpenVMS only, is obsolete for new development. While applications using this API should be rewritten in the new object-oriented API to take advantage of new RTR features and capabilities, they can be changed by adding object-oriented classes rather than being rewritten.

You can use the command line interface to the API to write simple RTR applications for testing and experimentation. The CLI is described in the Reliable Transaction Router System Manager's Manual. Its use is illustrated in this chapter.

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