Starting and stopping GINA applications

8.3 Starting and stopping GINA applications

8.3.1 Environment variables

Please note that certain environment variables must be set so that GINA applications can run. These variables are explained in section 3.3.5 on page 21.

8.3.2 Transaction-monitored applications

A GINA application which is based on the T-ORB service is made available by a start pro- cess. This means that authorized partners can connect to the application following a suc- cessful start in order to use its functions. The start process itself is implemented by the shell script utmstart.multi. The script is created during the production process of an applica- tion with the aid of the configuration generator. Setting the -roption creates the kdcdf script, whose execution then results in the creation of the start script.

An application is terminated using the administration (see section 8.4 on page 199).

Before a GINA application is started, the database instance with which the application works must be available. With INFORMIX, this can be achieved using the interactive pro- gram onmonitor or the program oninit. These programs and the necessary environ- ment variables are described in [21].

8.3.3 Non-transaction-monitored applications

When using a database with NLS functionality, you must ensure that the appropriate envi- ronment variables (DBNLS, LANG) are set. A description can be found in [18].

Event Handler

The DomsEventHandler (contained in the bin directory of the GINA installation) must be available as a daemon process/NT service for all machines running non-transaction-moni- tored applications. We recommend that this daemon process be started in the boot script.

The DomsEventHandler is required for local communication to the T-ORB/Client applica- tion; the daemon process informs this application that a message has arrived at the GINA application. A description of the interoperation of the participating partners can be found in the Developer Manual [13]. Communication via the Event Handler is based on the TCP/IP protocol and thus requires one of corresponding entries in the system file

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