Compaq Reliable Transaction Router manual Reading Path, Readers Comments

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Reader's Comments

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Conventions

This manual adopts the following conventions:

Convention	Description

New term	New terms are shown in bold when
	introduced and deﬁned. All RTR terms
	are deﬁned in the glossary at the end of
	this document or in the supplemental
	glossary in the RTR Application Design
	Guide.
User input	User input and programming examples
	are shown in a monospaced font.
	Boldface monospaced font indicates
	user input.
Terms and titles	Terms deﬁned only in the glossary are
	shown in italics when presented for
	the ﬁrst time. Italics are also used for
	titles of manuals and books, and for
	emphasis.
FE	RTR frontend
TR	RTR transaction router or router
BE	RTR backend

Reading Path

The reading path to follow when using the Reliable Transaction

Router information set is shown in Figure 1.

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Contents Reliable Transaction Router Getting Started Page Contents Reliability Features Figures Page Preface Purpose of this DocumentDocument Structure For all users Related DocumentationReaders Comments Reading PathSystem Manager Application Programmer If V2 to= Tutorial Reliable Transaction Router IntroductionRTR Continuous Computing Concepts RTR Continuous Computing ConceptsRTR Terminology RTR TerminologyClient Symbol Server Symbol Roles Symbols Components in the RTR Environment Nontransactional messaging Transaction ID Controller Database Server Application PresentationBusiness Logic Odbc Model RTR Frontend PC BrowserJournal Browser11 RTR Deployed on Three Nodes 12 Standby Server Conﬁguration 13 Transactional Shadowing Conﬁguration RTR Server Types RTR Server TypesStandby server Standby in a cluster 15 Standby Servers 16 Shadow Servers Server1 Server2 Server3 Server4 17 Concurrent ServersPartition a Transaction19 Bank Partitioning Example Standby Server Conﬁgurations Anonymous clients Tunnel RTR Networking Capabilities RTR Networking CapabilitiesPage Three-Layer Model Architectural ConceptsThree Layer Model Three-Layer ModelBroadcasts RTR Facilities Bridge the GapFlexibility and Growth RTR Facilities Bridge the GapFlexibility and Growth Transaction IntegrityPartitioned Data Model Object-Oriented ProgrammingPartitioned Data Model Partitioned Data Model Object-Oriented ProgrammingFunctional and Object-Oriented Programming Compared ObjectsExample 2-1 Objects-Deﬁned Sample Messages Class RelationshipsPolymorphism Object Implementation Beneﬁts XA Support XA SupportServers Reliability FeaturesFailover and Recovery Recovery ScenariosFailover and Recovery Recovery Scenarios Backend Recovery Router Recovery Frontend RecoveryPage RTR Interfaces RTR Management Station RTR Management Station RTR Create Facility DESIGN/ALLROLES=NODEA RTR RTRRECEIVEMESSAGE/TIME=0 RTR RTRSTARTTX/CHAN=C Interface Application Programming InterfacesRTR Browser Interface Application Programming InterfacesRTR C Example of an open channel call in an RTR client program RTR System Management Environment RTR EnvironmentRtrcomserv RTR System Management EnvironmentManagement Station Running Browser Software RTR System Management EnvironmentMonitoring RTR RTR Runtime Environment RTR Runtime Environment Client ApplicationOptional External Applet Not Running Whats Next? Whats Next?Page Glossary Broadcast BranchCallout server ChannelConcurrent server Common classesData marshalling Data objectEndian Fault tolerantEvent Event drivenInquorate FrontendJournal Key rangeMessage handler MessageMultichannel MultithreadedProcess PrimaryProperties Property classesRouter RollbackRTR conﬁguration RTR environmentStandby ShadowTransaction Transaction controllerTwo-phase commit Transactional messageTransactional shadowing Index-1 IndexIndex-2