BEA TUXEDO domains

7.7 BEA TUXEDO domains

A BEA TUXEDO domain refers to an administrative unit, a BEA TUXEDO application, which is independent of other BEA TUXEDO applications. These independent domains can, however, communicate with each other using gateways, i. e. services which offer and export a do- main can be imported into another domain and then called.

A BEA TUXEDO application (domain) refers to a system where all BEA TUXEDO services made known through the configuration are managed from a central location. Several ma- chines can be part of a single BEA TUXEDO application.

Domains allow one large BEA TUXEDO application to be split up into smaller, manageable parts.

The information you must enter can be divided into four parts (see Figure 35 on page 156):

specifications on system-wide settings, such as the participating domains

specifications on domain-wide settings, such as the participating hosts

specifications on host-specific parameters, such as operating system resources

specifications on application-specific parameters, such as the number of work pro- cesses

Practically speaking, some of the parameters can be specified in more than one of the four areas. In such cases, the values set higher up in the hierarchy must be taken as default set- tings. These values are then overwritten by the settings in more specific areas. The desired settings can thus be specified separately for each application if required (customizing).

If parameters are specified more than once at system level, they are then valid for the rest of the system level or until a new parameter is specified.

Figure 35 on page 156 is a symbolic representation of the hierarchies in the definition of the system. It is not drawn to scale to reflect the scope of the individual sub-descriptions.

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