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BEA Jolt Web Application Services Release Notes


About Jolt Web Application Services

Before you install Jolt Web Application Services, read this document in conjunction with the installation section in the BEA Jolt Web Application Services Developer's Guide. This guide is downloadable from the BEA Customer Support Web site.

Jolt Web Application Services allows HTTP/HTML clients to connect to and execute transactions in a BEA TUXEDO application environment. This software provides additional classes and objects that allow HTTP requests from browsers to be mapped into BEA Jolt and BEA TUXEDO application requests. Similarly, responses from BEA TUXEDO applications are mapped into BEA Jolt responses and into HTML pages that are returned to the client.

BEA Jolt Web Application Services uses BEA Jolt as the underlying request management and transport mechanism. The key features provided by the BEA Jolt Web Application Services classes and objects are Session Pooling and HTML Template processing. These capabilities are described in detail in the BEA Jolt Web Application Services Developer's Guide.

The software provided with BEA Jolt Web Application Services allows BEA Jolt to be used to support HTML clients. The BEA Jolt Web Application Services Release Notes include information about the following:


Web Application Services Platforms

Jolt Web Application Services is currently available for Microsoft IIS 4.0 with Active Server Pages. VBScript is the only supported scripting language in this environment.

The documentation accompanying the software refers to the use of Netscape Enterprise Server on Sun Solaris and Windows NT platforms. However, at this time, the Netscape version is not available. Several problems have been encountered using Jolt Web Application Services with the Netscape Web server under heavy load conditions. BEA is working with Netscape to resolve this issue. The software will be made available when have a resolution.


Web Application Services Installation

BEA Jolt Web Application Services require the installation of BEA Jolt 1.1 or BEA Jolt 1.1, Volume 2. Refer to the BEA Jolt User's Guide to install these products. In addition, the BEA Jolt software patch level 5 or higher is required. This patch is available from BEA Customer Support.

The installation of BEA Jolt Web Application Services consists of making the BEA Jolt Web Application Services classes and objects accessible to your Web Server.

Detailed installation instructions are available in README files provided with the downloaded software.

Microsoft IIS Requirements

To use the Jolt Web Application Services product with Microsoft IIS, you need the following:


Known Problems

The documentation accompanying the software refers to the use of Netscape Enterprise Server on Sun Solaris and Windows NT platforms. However, at this time, the Netscape version is not available. Several problems have been encountered using Jolt Web Application Services with the Netscape Web server under heavy load conditions. The effort to resolve these problems and to make the software available is being coordinated with Netscape.



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