Introduction to WebLogic Tuxedo Connector Programming

Note: For information on how to develop WebLogic Server Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), see Programming WebLogic Enterprise JavaBeans.

The following sections provide information about the development environment you will be using to write code for applications that interoperate between WebLogic Server and Tuxedo:

In addition to the Java code that expresses the logic of your application, you will be using the Java Application -to-Transaction Monitor Interface (JATMI) to provide the interface between WebLogic Server and Tuxedo. This allows you to develop clients and servers without modifying existing Tuxedo services.

A client process takes user input and sends a service request to a server process that offers the requested service. WebLogic Tuxedo Connector JATMI client classes are used to create clients that access services found in Tuxedo. These client classes are available to any service that is made available through a the WebLogic Tuxedo Connector WTCServer MBean.

Servers are processes that provide one or more services. They continually check their message queue for service requests and dispatch them to the appropriate service subroutines. WebLogic Tuxedo Connector uses EJBs to implement services which Tuxedo clients invoke.

The WebLogic Tuxedo Connector provides bi-directional interoperability between WebLogic Server and Tuxedo CORBA objects. The WebLogic Tuxedo Connector:

The JATMI is a set of primitives used to begin and end transactions, allocate and free buffers, and provide the communication between clients and servers.

Table 1-1 JATMI Primitives

Name	Operation
tpacall	Use for asynchronous invocations of a Tuxedo service during request/response communication.
tpcall	Use for synchronous invocation of a Tuxedo service during request/response communication.
tpconnect	Use to establish a connection to a Tuxedo conversational service.
tpdiscon	Use to abort a conversational connection and generate a TPEV_DISCONIMM event when executed by the process controlling the conversation.
tpdequeue	Use for receiving messages from a Tuxedo /Q during request/response communication.
tpenqueue	Use for placing a message on a Tuxedo /Q during request/response communication.
tpgetrply	Use for retrieving replies from a Tuxedo service during request/response communication.
tprecv	Use to receive data across an open connection from a Tuxedo application during conversational communication.
tpsend	Use to send data across a open connection to a Tuxedo application during conversational communication.
tpterm	Use to close a connection to a Tuxedo object.

Note: WebLogic Tuxedo Connector does not support double-byte character sets or international character sets. These features are dependent on future releases of Tuxedo.

WebLogic Tuxedo Connector provides an interface called TypedBuffers that corresponds to Tuxedo typed buffers. Messages are passed to servers in typed buffers. The WebLogic Tuxedo Connector provides the following buffer types:.

Table 1-2 TypedBuffers

Buffer Type	Description
TypedString	Buffer type used when the data is an array of characters that terminates with the null character. Tuxedo equivalent: STRING.
TypedCArray	Buffer type used when the data is an undefined array of characters (byte array), any of which can be null. Tuxedo equivalent: CARRAY.
TypedFML	Buffer type used when the data is self-defined. Each data field carries its own identifier, an occurrence number, and possibly a length indicator. Tuxedo equivalent: FML.
TypedFML32	Buffer type similar to TypeFML but allows for larger character fields, more fields, and larger overall buffers. Tuxedo equivalent: FML32.
TypedXML	Buffer type used when data is an XML based message. Tuxedo equivalent: XML for Tuxedo Release 7.1 and higher.
TypedView	Buffer type used when the application uses a Java structure to define the buffer structure using a view description file. Tuxedo equivalent: View
TypedView32	Buffer type similar to View but allows for larger character fields, more fields, and larger overall buffers. Tuxedo equivalent: View32.