BEA Tuxedo® 6.5 System and Middleware Concepts Application Developers Course Syllabus

This is an intense 5 day course with many labs. All labs are accomplished using MS Windows NT 4.0 and MS Visual C++.

Key Benefits:

Teaches students how to use BEA Tuxedo 6.5 to develop n-tier applications. Particular attention is paid to coding 'best practices' and n-tier design principles.

Offers specially designed hands-on labs that enable students to gain more practical experience with BEA Tuxedo 6.5 in a controlled environment.

Students will gain practical experience via the lab exercises that follow each section. Each lab exercise builds upon the previous one so it is imperative that students do not miss any class time.

Audience:

Application developers, designers and architects.

Student Prerequisites:

Working knowledge of C/C++ is required.
Windows NT or UNIX.

Course Agenda

Students will sign-in each day, and are required to complete a course evaluation at the end of the week. Copies of the completed evaluation forms will be provided to the Client Company.

Note: Course Agenda subject to change based upon student feedback.

• Overview of OLTP concepts
• Overview of the TUXEDO System - Components and Capabilities
• Communication Paradigms and Message Buffers
• Writing client programs with Tuxedo ATMI
• Lab 1 - Building a Client application

• Review Day 1
• Asynchronous service requests
• Lab 2 - Demonstrate the benefit of using fan-out parallelism
• Tuxedo Buffers (FML32, String, Carray, View32)
• Lab 3 - Demonstrate the creation and use of FML32 field table files

• Review Day 2
• FML32 APIs in Detail
• VIEW32 APIs in Detail
• Servers (Guidelines, Failure processing, MSSQ sets, Initialization and Termination, APIs, etc.)
• Services (Processing rules, Packaging rules, Conversations, APIs, etc.)
• Lab 4 - Coding Servers and Services

• Review Day 3
• Configuration and Administration commands for developers (UBBCONFIG and tmadmin)
• Lab 5 - Administration via command line utilities
• Distributed Transactions (X/Open Model, Resource Managers, Configuration, APIs, etc.)
• Lab 6 - Demonstrate the use of transactional APIs and creation of devices and transaction logs

• Review Day 4
• Tuxedo /Q - Persistent Queuing (Workflow concepts, configuration, APIs, etc.)
• Lab 7 - Enqueue service requests and dequeue service responses
• Tuxedo /WS - Distributed Clients
• Lab 8 - Building distributed clients, configuring /WS
• Tuxedo /Domains - Multiple Autonomous Applications (Lecture only)
• BEA Jolt - Java to Tuxedo connection (Lecture only)
• Best Practices (Lecture only)
• Review and Open Session