Essential Guide to Object Monitors"This timely book sets the bar for Object Transaction Monitors (OTMs). Then it provides in-depth comparisons of the leading OTM contenders-including the dirt and the gotchas. As a result, you get a $3,000 analyst report on the current state of OTMs for the price of a book. How could you pass it up? This book is must reading for anyone involved in middleware." -Robert Orfali, Author Client/Server Survival Guide, Third Edition. Are Object Monitors (OMs) really the universal alternative to multiple middleware products? What do they offer and how do they compare to other products on the market? How seriously should I take vendors' claims when it comes to our unique requirements? How do I select and use the best OM products for our current and future needs? This essential guide supplies the answers to these and all your questions concerning OM technology. You get impartial assessments of all the leading OM products, including: * IBM ComponentBroker. * Microsoft MTS. * Inprise ITS. * BEA M3. * Iona OrbixOTM. * Hitachi TPBroker. For each product, the authors describe: its architecture and integration with other vendor products; its conformance with CORBA and COM; how each works in real-world business applications; and marketing strategy. All this information is based on in-depth testing and hands-on investigation. You also get a framework for choosing the best product for your overall business, pinpointing application variances, recognizing similar product sets, and identifying future trends. On the companion Web site you'll find: * Regular product updates. * The latest OM technology news. * Links to other sites of interest. |
Contents
Part One The Object Monitor World | 1 |
Introducing the Object Monitor | 11 |
Creating Your OM Product Shortlist | 51 |
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access control lists additional APPLICATION PATTERN APPLICATION REQUIREMENT application services BEA Systems capability Chapter client and server client object Communication among objects ComponentBroker components computing concurrent users configured CORBA CORBA ORB corporate create custom code data sources DCOM define distributed transaction framework functionality handle Hitachi implementation includes infrastructure Inprise Inprise Corporation interaction interface interoperability IONA Java large environments large number Legacy system integration legacy systems message-oriented middleware messages Microsoft Microsoft Transaction Server middleware products multiple multithreading number of clients number of concurrent object architecture object database Object Monitor products Object Request Broker object-oriented offers operating system Orbix OrbixOTM performance programming protocol resource utilization response scalability server objects specific standards TECHNOLOGY IMPLICATION thread tion TP monitor TPBroker transaction management transaction processing monitor Transaction Service TUXEDO two-phase commit type of application updates vendors VisiBroker