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New Features and Enhancements |
BEA Tuxedo System Release 8.0 includes the following new features and enhancements:
Release 8.0 of BEA Tuxedo supports multithreaded C++ client and
server applications. While there are many advantages to writing
multithreaded applications, there are some disadvantages such as application complexity.
BEA Tuxedo 8.0 supports two threading models:
thread per object and thread per request.
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Release 8.0 of the BEA Tuxedo software supports international (multi-byte) characters,
or wide characters. Support for wide characters enables the Unicode character set to be
used in the CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) and in CORBA client and server
applications. As part of this new functionality, the C++ IDL compiler now supports
wchar and wstring data types, recursive sequences, indirect typecodes,
and forward references.
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Release 8.0 of BEA Tuxedo includes new load balancing features.
In BEA WebLogic Enterprise 5.1, in a multiprocessor configuration,
load balancing randomly distributed workload across all machines
supporting a particular interface within a domain. In BEA Tuxedo 8.0,
load balancing favors the local machine when distributing workload
and, thus, reduces bridge traffic.
support for parallel objects was added to BEA Tuxedo
CORBA in release 8.0 as a performance enhancement. The parallel
objects feature enables you to designate all business objects in
a particular application as stateless objects. The effect is that,
unlike stateful business objects which can only run on one server
in a single domain, stateless
business objects can run on all servers in a single domain.
Support for C++ object-by-value types enhances the ability of BEA Tuxedo CORBA C++
applications to access BEA WebLogic Servers 6.0 via RMI/IIOP.
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Support for the T-Engine security plug-in framework was provided in BEA Tuxedo 7.1
and BEA WebLogic Enterprise 5.1 (CORBA-only), but security context
could not be propagated across these environments.
In BEA Tuxedo 8.0, both the ATMI and CORBA environments
support the same plug-in framework, and therefore, common, interoperable security
is achieved.
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BEA Tuxedo 8.0 includes the following server options that enable you to customize
the server for optimal performance:
Service and Interface Caching
Turning off Authorization and auditing security
Turning off Multithreaded Processing
Turning off XA transactions
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Enhancements have been made to the BEA Tuxedo Domains software to improve
performance in the following areas:
Reduce boot time in large domain configurations
Enable cross-domain assignment of message priorities
Domain transaction auditing
In release 8.0, the Jolt software includes the following enhancements
that improve the
integration of BEA WebLogic Server with BEA Tuxedo services:
Propagation of BEA WebLogic Server user authentication
Connection pools reset option
XML buffer type support
Buffer allocation enhancements
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