Site News

This site is maintained on a month to month basis, that's when new stuff is added (and if there's as much as a whole new page it gets a new release number). Links are checked and maintained at this point too.

Releases

rel_12 (10th June 2002)

Started to add a directory of Technical Notes. These as their name suggests are of a technical nature reflecting real work. Their name reflects the date they were written.

rel_11 (1st December 1999)

Ok, it's here, finally all that Object stuff we've been promising. There's a new revamped executive summary; more stuff on WWW Servers; a page on Object Transactions Services (OTS) which are used by Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and a critique of EJBs. If some of the words used are a little unfamiliar then there is some Object terminology for beginners. Finally, a little has been written on the XML and, gulp, a Java Applet (but we'll let you hunt for that one).

Older Than This

Site Archaeology can be found in the Old Releases page.

As with all good companies we've some vapour to tell you about. Work is in progress on the following topics and hopefully they should be available soon ...

Object Transactions Services (OTS).

We've just stared on this and a single page isn't enough. So there's scope for more on OTS and probably one or two bits of source code as examples.

Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).

Isn't Java all the rage? As with OTS there is a need for more here, after all several people have written quite thick books on this subject! [Orfali & Harkey], [Vogel & Rangarao]

We've some pages under construction that will by analogy explain EJB to old CICS/Tuxedo programmers. By extension there'll be a page explaining how the lessons of this `heritage' OLTP can be applied to hot-shot new EJB stuff. Like you didn't know already.

We get about 11,000 page requests a month and the logs have been building up. Some lines of Perl later and we can see what pages are the most popular. Here's a list of the Top Ten in descending order from over the last year ...

1. ZOIS
2. Open OLTP
3. Tuxedo Overview
4. ACID
5. Ask Mr. OLTP
6. Table of Contents
7. News
8. CICS Overview
9. Mr. OLTP's Answers
10. OLTP Bibliography

1. Apache to Tomcat to JBoss to PostgreSQL on Red Hat Linux
2. ZOIS
3. CICS Overview
4. Enterprise Java Beans
5. Upgrading to Apache/mod_ssl and Tomcat 4 (Catalina) on Red Hat 6.2 Linux
6. Tuxedo Overview
7. Mr. OLTP's Answers
8. Upgrading an IBM ThinkPad 570 to Threads Linux 7.3
9. ACID
10. Connecting PostgreSQL 7 to JBoss 2 on Threads (Red Hat) Linux 7.3

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