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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

Understanding server lifetime

Once we create our server object, we give full control to the Tuxedo runtime by calling the run function. Tuxedo then does its magic and invokes the appropriate function for the service called by the client. In addition to services, these are the several functions that Tuxedo attempts to call during the server's lifetime:

  • tpsvrinit: This is called during server startup and receives all command-line arguments. The arguments part is not very interesting for Python code because we can always get it from sys.argv, but it is present to match the C XATMI function with the same name. What you do in this function depends on your application, but it must return 0 to indicate success and -1 for error. A typical task in this function for Tuxedo servers is to advertise services.
  • tpsvrdone: This is called during server shutdown and typically cleans up connections and other resources.
  • tpsvrthrinit: This is similar to tpsvrinit, but is used for multithreaded...