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From: rwb@viusys.uucp (Rick)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Transaction Processing Software for UNIX?
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.120252.9554@viusys.uucp>
Date: 21 Sep 90 12:02:52 GMT
Organization: Unisys DPO
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I'm looking to develop a rather simple transactional application, and I'm
wondering if there's any code out there to help it along.  Basically, I'm
looking to have a user enter a transaction-id, and some data, which would
be read by a transaction manager, which would then queue it to an appropriate
free-running program to perform the transaction.  There will be multiple
transaction types, and multiple copies of each transaction handler.  This
manager would have to handle queuing, in case of a handler being busy, and
the hand-off mechanism should involve some type of IPC, (mmap, SYSV
message, or some such) for performance reasons.  I really don't want to
have to go out and buy something (Tuxedo?) for such a small system.
I'm perfectly willing to hack on something that might come close to this,
I'm just looking for something to get me started.

Does anybody have such a beastie they might be willing to share?

Thanks,
Rick