Explores the anatomy of the client/server model and how the BEA Tuxedo system fits into this model. Discusses clients, services, and servers and reviews the tools provided by the ATMI environment in the BEA Tuxedo product. Also provides an overview of the BEA family of products.

Discusses the architecture of the ATMI environment in the BEA Tuxedo product. The ATMI architecture includes application processing services such as data-dependent routing, data encoding and encryption, and load balancing, as well as administrative services such as centralized configuration, event and security management, message queues, and naming. Describes the communication paradigms supported by the system and explains how the system processes messages.

Describes the core BEA Tuxedo system administration and server processes that together form the infrastructure for ATMI applications built on the BEA Tuxedo system.

Describes the BEA Tuxedo administration processes available to users for managing Tuxedo applications.