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   Administering a BEA Tuxedo Application at Run Time

Multithreaded applications can be much more difficult to debug than single-threaded applications. As the administrator, you may want to establish a policy governing whether such multithreaded applications should be created.

When running in protected mode, an application attaches to shared memory only when an ATMI call is being executed. Protected mode is used to guard against problems that arise when BEA Tuxedo shared memory is accidentally overwritten by stray application pointers.

If your multithreaded application is running in protected mode, some threads may be executing application code while others are attached to the BEA Tuxedo Bulletin Board's shared memory within a BEA Tuxedo function call. Therefore, as long as at least one thread is attached to the bulletin board in an ATMI call, the use of protected mode cannot guard against stray application pointers in threads executing application code, which may overwrite the BEA Tuxedo shared memory. As a result, the usefulness of protected mode is relatively limited in multithreaded applications.

There is no solution to this limitation. We simply want to warn you that when running a multithreaded application you cannot rely on protected mode as much as you do when running a single-threaded application.