BEA Tuxedo is the leading Transaction Processing Monitor (TPM) designed to run C, COBOL, C++ and CORBA C++ software applications across distributed, heterogeneous computing environments. Tuxedo is designed to support ultra high-end applications—applications that run more than 5,000 Transactions Per Second (TPS) with more than 10,000 concurrent users. Applications running on Tuxedo can range from customer-service, business-critical applications such as reservation systems to back-office processes such as human resources (HR) and finance.
BEA Systems has announced the general availability of BEA Tuxedo 9.0, the latest version of the company’s software product for high transaction processing. Applications running on BEA Tuxedo form the backbone of some of the world’s leading companies running some of the largest, mission-critical transaction processing systems—including wire transfers, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), and telecommunications billing systems. Leveraging open standards, BEA Tuxedo 9.0 is designed to help customers build new and repurpose legacy applications and extend them to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is an approach to software application development designed to transform business applications into "services" – specific pieces of functionality – which can be combined and reused, helping IT organizations more closely align to business processes.
"With the release of BEA Tuxedo 9.0, BEA is expanding beyond its traditional excellence in Transaction Processing Management (TPM) adding advanced features and functionalities designed to enable enterprises to focus on better serving their customers by leveraging legacy and mainframe assets and extending them to SOA." said Wai Wong, executive vice president, products, BEA Systems.
New Features - Extensibility & SOA Support
Tighter integration with BEA WebLogic Server via the WebLogic Tuxedo Connector that provides bi-directional, peer-to-peer, cross-platform interoperability with complete transaction and security propagation for data integrity
Integration with BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, (formerly code named Quicksilver), the first product of its type to unify Enterprise Service Bus and Web Services management capabilities.
Better support of Extensible Markup Language (XML), including update Xerces parser, XML to FML transformation services.
BEA has started to build a framework for supporting Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services stacks
Tuxedo Service Metadata Repository designed to provide Tuxedo application developers and administrators the ability to store and retrieve detailed services parameter information on any or all Tuxedo application services
New Features - Security
Security plug-ins supporting Kerberos for single-single sign on (SSO), and CERT-C Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) with support for digital signatures. These enhancements provide standards based support for SSO and data protection and non-repudiation (hacking)
New Features - Quality of Service (QoS)
Performance enhancements such as multithreaded domain gateway designed to help increase the throughput of WebLogic Tuxedo Connector and the Quality of Service (QoS) of existing applications. These new performance enhancements can provide customers the ability to handle increased volume of transactions, so companies can build applications today that can scale for the future.
