Key Features


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Key Features

With BEA Jolt, you can leverage existing BEA Tuxedo services and extend your transaction environment to the corporate intranet or world-wide Internet. The key feature of Jolt architecture is its simplicity. You can build, deploy, and maintain robust, modular, and scalable electronic commerce systems that operate over the Internet.

BEA Jolt includes the following features:

Java-based API for simplified development—with its Java-based API, BEA Jolt simplifies application design by providing well-designed object interfaces. Jolt supports the Java 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) and is fully compatible with Java threads. Jolt enables Java programmers to build graphical front-ends that use the BEA Tuxedo application and transaction services without having to understand detailed transactional semantics or rewrite existing BEA Tuxedo applications.
Pure Java client development—using Jolt, you can build a pure Java client that runs in any Java-enabled browser. Jolt automatically converts from Java to native BEA Tuxedo data types and buffers, and from BEA Tuxedo back to Java. As a pure Java client, your applet or application does not need resident client-side libraries or installation; thus, you can download client applications from the network.
Easy access to BEA Tuxedo services through Jolt Repository—the BEA Jolt Repository facilitates Java application development by managing and presenting BEA Tuxedo service definitions that you can use in your Java client. A Jolt Repository bulk loading utility lets you quickly integrate your existing BEA Tuxedo services into the Jolt development environment. Jolt and BEA Tuxedo simplify network and application scalability, while encouraging the reuse of application components.
GUI-Based maintenance and distribution of BEA Tuxedo services—the Jolt Repository Editor lets you manage BEA Tuxedo service definitions such as service names, inputs and outputs. The Jolt Repository Editor provides support for different input and output names for services defined in the Jolt Repository.
Encryption for secure transaction processing—BEA Jolt allows you to encrypt data transmitted between Jolt clients and the JSL/JSH. Jolt encryption helps ensure secure Internet transaction processing.
Added security through Internet Relay—network administrators can use the BEA Jolt Internet Relay component to separate their Web server and BEA Tuxedo application server. Web servers are generally considered insecure because they often exist outside a corporate firewall. Using the Jolt Internet Relay, you can locate your BEA Tuxedo server in a secure location or environment on your network, yet still handle transactions from Jolt clients on the Internet.
Event Subscription Support—Jolt Event Subscription enables you to receive event notifications from BEA Tuxedo services and BEA Tuxedo clients. Jolt Event Subscription lets you subscribe to two types of BEA Tuxedo application events:
- Unsolicited Event Notifications—a Jolt client can receive these notifications when a BEA Tuxedo client or service subscribes to unsolicited events and a BEA Tuxedo client issues a broadcast or a directly targeted message.
- Brokered Event Notifications—the Jolt client receives these notifications through the BEA Tuxedo Event Broker. The Jolt client receives these notifications only when it subscribes to an event and any BEA Tuxedo client or server posts an event.