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   Introducing the BEA Tuxedo System

The BEA product family facilitates end-to-end integration of heterogeneous hardware and software environments allowing businesses to create enterprise-wide transaction processing systems. BEA products enable companies to enjoy the benefits of robust mission-critical applications with the flexibility of distributed client/server computing. Compliant with all leading industry standards, BEA products enable developers to build, deploy, manage, and connect enterprise-wide applications on more than 70 platforms. These products also provide complete integration with market-leading application development tools, systems management solutions, and legacy applications.

Among open middleware vendors, BEA provides the only complete, end-to-end enterprise middleware solution that includes leading transaction processing components, a Web application server, and messaging products.

The BEA product suite includes the following:

• BEA eLink-is a family of connectivity products that seamlessly integrate BEA Tuxedo distributed applications with mainframe applications.

• BEA Jolt-provides Internet access and complete JAVA development support. Jolt takes requests from JAVA-enabled clients and translates them into BEA Tuxedo application calls.

• BEA Manager-provides tools for administration.

• BEA Tuxedo system comprises four components:

  • BEA Tuxedo core product-The most widely deployed transaction middleware for building high-performance, mission-critical, and reliable distributed applications. It provides the industry leading middleware framework for building scalable 3-tier client-server applications in heterogeneous, distributed environments.

  • BEA Tuxedo Workstation-provides full support for clients on Windows, OS/2, Mac, UNIX, and other platforms, allowing applications to use remote clients that do not need a full BEA Tuxedo implementation.

  • BEA Tuxedo Domains-extends the BEA Tuxedo client/server model to provide transaction interoperability across domains.

  • BEA Tuxedo /Q-allows clients and servers to store messages or service requests for guaranteed processing.

• BEA WebLogic Enterprise-enables you to build, deploy, and manage component-based solutions on a proven platform. Based on the power, robustness, and demonstrated reliability of the BEA Tuxedo system, BEA WebLogic Enterprise brings together the best of industry standards, such as Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). With the power of component-based programming, these tools enable you to create a complete production-ready enterprise solution.

• BEA WebLogic Server-is a Java-application server that enables you to develop, integrate, deploy, and manage large-scale, distributed Web, network, and database applications.

  Integration of BEA Products