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Interoperability and Coexistence
This topic discusses the following interoperability scenarios:
Intradomain and Interdomain Interoperability and Coexistence
BEA Tuxedo supports intradomain and interdomain interoperability with BEA WebLogic Enterprise and other versions of the BEA Tuxedo software. BEA Tuxedo 8.0 can coexist in the same domain with BEA Tuxedo 6.4, 6.5, and 7.1 and BEA WebLogic Enterprise 4.2, 5.0 and 5.1. Interdomain interoperability is supported for BEA Tuxedo 8.0 and previous releases of BEA WebLogic Enterprise and older versions of BEA Tuxedo (see Figure 4-1).
Figure 4-1 Domain Gateway Interoperability
Note: While BEA Tuxedo 8.0 clients or servers cannot interoperate or coexist with BEA Tuxedo 6.3 servers, BEA Tuxedo 6.3 clients can interoperate with BEA Tuxedo 8.0 servers.
Interoperability and Coexistence Between BEA Tuxedo 8.0 and BEA WebLogic Enterprise T-Engine
Existing WLE T-Engine Java applications can interoperate with BEA Tuxedo 8.0 and take full advantage of BEA Tuxedo 8.0 features. The following scenarios are supported (see Figure 4-2):
Figure 4-2 Interoperability with BEA WebLogic Enterprise T-Engine
Interoperability with Third-Party ORBs
In release 8.0 support for the CORBA Services Interoperable Naming Service (INS) was added to the BEA Tuxedo system to enhance interoperability with third-party ORB applications. The addition of INS enables third-party ORBs that use INS to interoperable with the BEA Tuxedo CORBA server ORB. Using INS, third-party ORBs can execute the following operations on BEA Tuxedo CORBA servers without requiring the use of the BEA Bootstrap, SecurityCurrent, or TransactionCurrent environmental objects (see Figure 4-3):
Note: The BEA Tuxedo CORBA client environmental objects continue to be supported in BEA Tuxedo 8.0 as they were in BEA WebLogic Enterprise 5.1.
Figure 4-3 Interoperability with Third-Party ORBs
Interoperability Between BEA Tuxedo 8.0 CORBA and BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 Using Object-by-Value Types
Note: The BEA WebLogic Enterprise Connector (WLEC) software is still supported for BEA WebLogic Server to BEA Tuxedo CORBA interoperability.
Figure 4-4 Support for C++ Object-by-Value
Interoperability Between BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 and BEA Tuxedo 8.0 ATMI Using Jolt
As in previous releases, using BEA WebLogic Server and Jolt, you can make BEA Tuxedo services accessible on the Web. In release 8.0, the Jolt software includes the following enhancements that improve the integration of BEA WebLogic Server with BEA Tuxedo services (see Figure 4-5):
For more information on these enhancements, see Enhancements to Jolt to Improve Interoperability Between BEA WebLogic Server BEA Tuxedo ATMI.
Figure 4-5 BEA WebLogic Server Integration Enhancements
Interoperability Between BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 and BEA Tuxedo 8.0 CORBA Using WLEC
The BEA WebLogic Enterprise Connector (WLEC) enables the BEA WebLogic Server connections to BEA Tuxedo 8.0 CORBA applications. WLEC connects over IIOP and supports propagation of security, connection reset and transaction demarcation.
Figure 4-6 WebLogic Enterprise Connector (WLEC)
Interoperability Between BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 and BEA Tuxedo 8.0 Using WTC
The BEA WebLogic Tuxedo Connector (WTC) enables bidirectional interoperability between the BEA WebLogic Server and BEA Tuxedo ATMI and CORBA environments. WTC uses the BEA Tuxedo domain technology and supports the following capabilities Figure 4-7):
Notes: The capabilities of WTC are enhanced in subsequent releases.
WTC version 1.0 enables bidirectional interoperability between BEA WebLogic Server and BEA Tuxedo ATMI. This version is compatible with BEA WebLogic Server 6.0 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) and is available as separate software via a download over the Internet.
WTC version 1.1 enables bidirectional interoperability between BEA WebLogic Server and BEA Tuxedo ATMI and CORBA. This version is delivered with BEA WebLogic Server 6.1.
WTC enables bidirectional security context propagation and unidirectional propagation of transaction context from the BEA WebLogic Server to the BEA Tuxedo system.
Figure 4-7 WebLogic Tuxedo Connector
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