Table of Contents

A table of contents that is designed to reflect the structure of the site (indeed it can be thought to be a bit of a site map). Remember you can also use the Search page too.

• ZOIS Limited
  • OLTP
    • OLTP for Brain Surgeons and Rocket Scientists
      • Some Computers are Better than Others
      • Computers Can Talk to Each Other
      • Keep All Your Facts Together
      • Remember, Talk Is Not Cheap
      • Oops! Forget about That
      • Money
      • So That's What You Do
    • Open Online Transaction Processing
      • What is Open OLTP?
      • Why Open?
      • Open Platform?
      • Open Transaction Management?
      • Client/Server was Mentioned
      • Ok, Name some Names
      • Where would a TP Manager Fit In?
      • More Information
    • Power Users Demand More Power
    • How does OLTP Effect Reliability
    • So What Makes a Transaction
    • Scaling
      • Scaling in Gathering and Dissemination
      • Scaling in Manipulation
      • Scaling in Storage
      • TP Monitors
  • Transaction Processing Monitors
    • Source Code Caveates
    • CICS
      • History
      • General Description
      • More Information
      • Example Code for CICS
      • Pronouncing 'CICS'
    • Encina
      • History
      • General Description
      • More Information
      • Example Code for Encina
      • Encina's Name
    • Top End
      • History
      • General Description
      • Programming in Top End
      • More Information
    • Tuxedo
      • History
      • General Description
      • More Information
      • Example Code for Tuxedo
      • Tuxedo's Name
  • Object Oriented Transactions and the Web
    • Web Servers
      • Traditional Shortcomings
      • Re-inventing the Block Mode Terminal
      • Re-inventing the Terminal Concentrator
      • Big, Big Servers
      • Scripting and Java Serverlets
    • An Introduction to Object Transaction Services (OTS)
      • Some Terminology for the Objectively Challenged
        • Objects, Classes and Methods
        • Polymorphism
        • Inheritance and Overloading
        • Data Hiding and Patterns
        • Virtual Methods and Interfaces
      • What is CORBA?
      • Distributed Objects Need Transactions Too
      • GIOP and IIOP
      • OTM
      • Java
      • Microsoft
    • An Introduction to Enterprise Java Beans
      • What is Java
      • Java on the Web Browser
      • Java at the Back End
      • Beans
      • Enterprise Beans
      • Session Enterprise Java Bean
      • Entity Enterprise Java Beans
      • The Benefits of EJBs
      • Programming EJBs
      • More Information
    • A Critique of Enterprise Java Beans
      • The Front End
      • The Middle Bit
      • The Back End
        • A Java Clock and Some Lossages
      • Architecture
    • CICS to EJB
      • Non-Conversational
      • Conversational
      • Data Access and Beans
      • Shopping Trollies
      • Money or Double
      • MOVE CUSTOMER-DETAIL TO OUT-REC
      • EJB vs CICS Naming
      • Summary and Recommendations
      • Further Information
      • Addendum - CICS Terms
    • XML and Transactions on the Web
      • New, Competing Protocols
      • XML
  • Technical Notes, amongst others ...
    • TN-2001-04-23: Using Tuxedo Asynchronously with Global Transactions
    • TN-2001-10-15: Apache to Tomcat to JBoss to PostgreSQL on Red Hat Linux
    • TN-2001-10-16: A J2EE Simpapp
    • TN-2002-05-23: Upgrading to Apache/mod_ssl and Tomcat 4 (Catalina) on Red Hat 6.2 Linux
  • Miscellaneous
    • Academia
      • Distributed Parallelized Calculations
      • Camelot
      • Arjuna
      • Point to Note
    • What's Microsoft Up To
      • A Closer Look at MTS
      • ODBC, Transactions and Resource Dispensing
      • OLE Transactions
      • A Critique of Microsoft's Approach
      • Future Directions
      • Further Reading
    • Bibliography
      • Books
      • Papers
    • Book Marks
      • Book Mark Selection
      • Other TPM for Open Platforms
      • Other Links
  • Mr. OLTP
    • Ask Mr. OLTP
    • Mr OLTP's Answers
      • The Questions
      • The Answers
  • Cockermouth
    • Location
    • History
    • Personages
    • Industry
    • Further Information
  • Finally ...
    • Credits
      • Acknowledgements
      • Trade Marks
    • Other "Zois" Sites
      • "Zois" Domains
      • Not Quite "Zois" Domains
    • Open OLTP News
      • Old News
    • Site News
      • Releases
        • Old Releases
      • Real Soon Now
      • Statistics of Sorts
    • Search the ZOIS Web Site
    • Contact ZOIS
      • Doing Business with ZOIS
      • Legalise
    • Feedback to ZOIS
      • More of Mr. OLTP's Answers
      • Suggestions to ZOIS
    • People
      • Martin Sullivan
        • Medical Condition
      • Mr. OLTP
    • Comment Form
    • Copyright
      • Catch All Clause
      • Disclaimer
      • Permission to Copy
    • Historic ZOIS Clients, Product Links and Other Stuff
      • Clients
      • Product Links

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Highlights

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• What Transactions are about.
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Also of Interest

Juicy morsels from the rest of the site:

• Some site news; it's a sort of infrequently updated journal for the author too.
• Rather specific Technical Notes, the author can still bore people in the Historic Third-person.
• Of the little hacks that have been done recently, the Unofficial Jobcentre Plus Mirror seems to have gained the most traction.
• Other ephemeral, eclectic stuff. Mostly photographs.
• A series of Gormless Anecdotes, basically recycled e-mails.

About the Author

His name is Martin Sullivan. He's a fifty-something some-time computer programmer living in the quaintly named town of Cockermouth in north-west England.

The Company

ZOIS Limited is basically a vehicle for Martin and his OLTP work, he owns it. You can find out more about it elsewhere on the main site.

Pro-Bono Plug

Martin is currently on a health sabbatical, but is interested in the odd bit of pro-bono work by the way of therapeutic recovery. So, if you've anything that he can tackle on a non-commercial basis from his base in Cockermouth please let him know. Unsurprisingly, he's particularly interest in biology, again, and the application of computing to it.