TPBroker

Next-generation object-oriented transaction processing

Mission critical OLTP applications moving towards enterprise-wide,client/server computing are in need of two fundamental components:

A robust, efficient and scalable communications infrastructure
And a guaranteed mechanism for preserving data consistency

TPBroker provides both in one complete solution

TPBroker is an object-oriented transaction processing system based on the Object Transaction Service (OTS) specified by OMG (Object Management Group). TPBroker is the result of convergence of technologies from two companies - INPRISE Corporation and Hitachi, the former specializing in communications infrastructures and the latter on transaction processing systems.

To build next generation OLTP applications, TPBroker provides:

Powerful and scalable communications infrastructure.
Dynamic and fault tolerant infrastructure allowing easy administration.
Flexible object-oriented transaction processing system guaranteeing data integrity.
Integration with leading databases.
Lightweight implementation allowing enterprise wide deployment.

TPBroker is a combination of ORBeline, INPRISE's SMART ORB based on CORBA 2.0, and OpenTP1, Hitachi's advanced transaction processing engine with OTS.

TPBroker allows gradual migration of applications towards enterprise-wide computing by preserving co-existence with legacy client and server applications using X/Open's DTP model.

Through the use of X/Open XA interfaces TPBroker provides connectivity to commercial databases - relational and object-oriented (e.g. Oracle, DB2).

Standard OMG compliant transaction processing system allows interoperability and connectivity to other ORB and OTS based applications.

Easy to use APIs conforming to OMG'S OTS Specification allowing fast deployment of TP Applications.

Support for wide range of platforms including PCs, midrange and large high-end servers.

Distributed client/server applications using TPBroker will typically consist of a large number of PC-based clients, a number of high-end Windows NT or UNIX servers.

TPBroker provides the flexibility of using any number of clients or server nodes.
It is light enough to run on PC clients and powerful enough to address all requirements and load of servers. Platforms supported will include Windows 95, Windows NT, most flavors of UNIX, and other operating systems.

ORBeline is INPRISE's Object Request Broker conforming to the CORBA standard to develop distributed object-oriented applications.

OpenTP1 is Hitachi's distributed transaction processing system conforming to X/Open's Distributed Transaction Processing (DTP) model.

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