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Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python

By : Aivars Kalvans
Book Image

Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python

By: Aivars Kalvans

Overview of this book

Despite being developed in the 1980s, Oracle Tuxedo still runs a significant part of critical infrastructure and is not going away any time soon. Modernizing Oracle Tuxedo Applications with Python will help you get to grips with the most important Tuxedo concepts by writing Python code. The book starts with an introduction to Oracle Tuxedo and guides you in installing its latest version and Python bindings for Tuxedo on Linux. You'll then learn how to build your first server and client, configure Tuxedo, and start running an application. As you advance, you'll understand load balancing and work with the BBL server, which is at the heart of a Tuxedo application. This Tuxedo book will also cover Boolean expressions and different ways to export Tuxedo buffers for storage and transmission, before showing you how to implement servers and clients and use the management information base to change the configuration dynamically. Once you've learned how to configure Tuxedo for transactions and control them in application code, you'll discover how to use the store-and-forward functionality to reach destinations and use an Oracle database from a Tuxedo application. By the end of this Oracle Tuxedo book, you'll be able to perform common Tuxedo programming tasks with Python and integrate Tuxedo applications with other parts of modern infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
6
Section 2: The Good Bits
12
Section 3: Integrations

Using queues

There is a special parameter for the queue API called the queue control structure, which is called TPQCTL in the API. It contains additional parameters and response information for the queue operations. Because of the heritage of the C programming language, each parameter must be paired with a flag value that indicates that the parameter is set. Otherwise, it is ignored. The most important parameters are as follows:

  • corrid is a correlation identifier up to 32 characters long. TPQCORRID must be set in flags to indicate the presence of this field.
  • deq_time tells when the message should be dequeued from the queue. When TPQTIME_ABS is set in flags, deq_time contains seconds since the UTC epoch. When TPQTIME_REL is set in flags, the value is the number of seconds after enqueueing the message.
  • replyqueue and failurequeue are names of queues where a successful or failure response message will be stored. TPQREPLY or TPQFAILUREQ must be set in flags to indicate...