BEA Tuxedo and BEA TOP END Terminology


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While BEA Tuxedo and BEA TOP END offer similar capabilities, the terminology used by each product family is different. The following table provides a comparison of BEA TOP END and BEA Tuxedo terminology.

Comparison of BEA Tuxedo and BEA TOP END Terms

BEA Tuxedo	BEA TOP END	Description
Domain	System	Collection of servers (programs) and other components that are deployed on a network of one or more nodes and administered together.
Bridge	Network Interface (NI)	Process that manages internode communication within a domain or system.
Bulletin Board Liaison (BBL)	Node Manager (NM)	A set of one or more processes that manage a domain or system on a run-time node.
Workstation Handler (WSH)	Network Agent (NA)	Process that handles service requests from remote clients.
/Q	RTQ	A set of reliable queuing facilities that allow messages to be passed using queues.
ATMI	CSI	Application programming interfaces for the BEA Tuxedo and BEA TOP END systems, respectively.
Workstation client	Remote client	Client process running on a remote site.

TEDG Terminology

The following table summarizes common terminology used in reference to the TEDG.

This Term . . .	Refers to . . .
Remote domains	BEA TOP END systems accessed via the TEDG.
Remote domain DOMAINID	BEA Tuxedo user ID for requests made to the BEA Tuxedo system by the BEA TOP END system.
Local domains	BEA Tuxedo domains accessed via the TEDG. The term "local domains" can also be used to refer to a subset of the domain.
Local domain DOMAINID	BEA TOP END user ID for requests made to the BEA TOP END system by the BEA Tuxedo system.
Imported services	Remote services imported from a BEA TOP END system.
Exported services	Local services exported to a BEA TOP END system.

Reference Manual Notation

TEDG users should keep in mind that references to entries in the BEA TOP END Programmer's Reference Manual are marked by a "T" after the section number included in the reference. For example, the tp_intro(1T) entry can be found in the BEA TOP END Programmer's Reference Manual. Entries referenced without a "T" after the section number (such as tmboot (1)) can be found in the appropriate section of the BEA Tuxedo reference manual:

BEA Tuxedo Command Reference
BEA Tuxedo ATMI C Function Reference
BEA Tuxedo ATMI COBOL Function Reference
BEA Tuxedo ATMI FML Function Reference
File Formats, Data Descriptions, MIBs, and System Processes Reference