Preface


Purpose of This Manual

This manual describes the BEA Jolt product, discusses how to use the Jolt system, and defines messages and terms associated with using the product.


Audience

This document is intended for system administrators, network administrators, and developers interested in extending secure, scalable transaction-based processing from the enterprise to intranet and Internet wide availability. It assumes a familiarity with BEA TUXEDO and Java programming.


Jolt Documentation

The Jolt documentation consists of the following documents:

BEA Jolt User's Guide (available in both hardcopy and online format)

BEA Jolt Release Notes (available in hardcopy format)


How This Manual is Organized

This manual is organized as follows:

Chapter 1, "Introducing BEA Jolt," describes the Jolt features, architecture, and components.

Chapter 2, "Installing Jolt," describes how to install the Jolt components.

Chapter 3, "Configuring the Jolt System," describes security, event notification, the Jolt Relay, and how to configure the Jolt server components.

Chapter 4, "Bulk Loading TUXEDO Services," describes how to use the Jolt Bulk Loader utility.

Chapter 5, "Using the Jolt Repository Editor," describes how to add, modify, test, export, and delete TUXEDO service definitions from the Repository based on the information available from the TUXEDO configuration file.

Chapter 6, "Using the Jolt Class Library," describes how developers use the object-oriented Java language classes for accessing TUXEDO services.

Chapter 7, "Jolt Class Library Reference," is a reference for Jolt methods and classes.

Appendix A, "Jolt Class Library Errors and Exceptions," is a resource of Jolt class library errors and exceptions.

Appendix B, "System Messages," is a resource for Jolt system error messages.

Note: BEA TUXEDO and BEA Jolt are trademarked terms. Any occurrence of the terms TUXEDO and Jolt in the document, refers to the BEA TUXEDO and BEA Jolt products.


Related Manuals

TUXEDO System Reference Manual

TUXEDO System Administration Guide

TUXEDO System Programmer's Guide, Volumes 1 and 2

TUXEDO System Message Manual, Volumes 1 and 2


Other TUXEDO Resources

The TUXEDO System (Andrade, Carges, Dywer, Felts)

TUXEDO: An Open Approach to OLTP (Primatesta)

Building Client/Server Applications Using TUXEDO (Hall)


Document Conventions

The following documentation conventions are used throughout this manual:

Item Convention Example

Arguments

appear in parentheses and are formatted in a lowercase monospace font. Optional arguments are formatted in italic font. Predefined arguments are formatted in an uppercase font.

(name, 0, value)

(ACCTID, 2, 5000)

Caution

Apply to practices that could result in loss of information.

Caution: Be sure to save your information before moving to the next window.

Environment variables

are formatted in an uppercase font.

ENVFILE=${APPDIR}

Glossary terms

are formatted in italics in the printed copy.

Port is the host name of a Jolt server.

Key names

are presented in boldface type.

Press Enter to continue.

Literals

are formatted in a monospace font.

class extendSample

Notes

highlight procedures and contain information which assist the user in understanding the information contained in this manual.

Note: This feature is available with Jolt.

Programs and applications

are formatted with initial caps.

Use the Repository Editor and the Class Library.

User input

are formatted in a monospace font.

Type cd TUXDIR

Warning

applies to practices which could result in loss of productivity or information.

Warning: Be sure to save your information before returning to the previous screen.

Window items

are presented in boldface type. Window items can be window titles, button labels, text edit box names or other parts of the window.

Type your password in the Logon window.

Select Export to make the service available to the client.