Compaq Reliable Transaction Router Endian, Event driven, Event handler, Facility, Failover

endian

The byte-ordering of multibyte values. Big endian: high-order

byte at starting address; little endian: low-order byte at starting address.

event

RTR or application-generated information about an application or RTR.

event driven

A processing model in which the application receives messages and events by registering handlers with the transaction controller. These handlers are derived from the C++ foundation class message and event-handler classes.

event handler

A C++ API-derived object used in event-driven processing that processes events.

facility

The mapping between nodes and roles used by RTR and established when the facility is created.

facility manager

A C++ API management class that creates and deletes facilities.

facility member

A defined entity within a facility. A facility member is a role and node combined. Can be a client, router or server.

failover

The ability to continue operation on a second system when the first has failed or become disconnected.

failure tolerant

Software that enables an application to continue when failures such as node or site outages occur. Failover is automatic.

fault tolerant

Hardware built with redundant components to ensure that processing survives component failure.

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