NonStop SOAP 4.1 User's Manual

T
TMF See Transaction Management Facility subsystem.
TMF transaction See Transaction Management Facility subsystem and transaction.
transaction An operation or a series of operations that retrieves and updates information to reflect an exchange
of goods or services. In the process of retrieving and updating information, a transaction transforms
a database from one consistent state to another. The TMF subsystem treats a transaction as a
single unit; either all of the changes made by a transaction are made permanent (the transaction
is committed) or none of the changes are made permanent (the transaction is aborted).
transaction
management
To coordinate transaction control functions, such as beginning and ending transactions, committing
or aborting transactions, and recovering transactions.
Transaction
Management
Facility (TMF)
subsystem
The major component of the NonStop™ TM/MP product, which protects databases in online
transaction processing environments. To furnish this service, the TMF subsystem manages database
transactions, keeps track of database activity through audit trails, and provides database recovery
methods.
TS/MP TS/MP software manages server pools by establishing links between clients and servers, balancing
the workload across servers, automatically creating and deleting servers in response to changes
in request traffic, and restarting servers after processor or process failures.
U
Url_pattern This is a unique string that specifies the Web address of the NonStop SOAP 4 deployment
location.
user-exits These are functions used to customize NonStop SOAP 3 server.
V
volume A disk drive, or a pair of disk drives that forms a mirrored disk, in the Guardian environment.
The name of a volume is the second of the four parts of a file name.
W
Web server Web servers are programs that execute on a variety of server platforms. Web server functions
can be divided into two parts. A file server part performs normal file server functions, such as file
transfer and buffering. A message switching facility allows messages from Web clients to be
forwarded to application programs.
WS-Security WS-Security provides a platform to secure your services beyond transport level protocols, such
as HTTPS. HTTPS performs a secure message transfer from one end point to another. However,
in the real world, the message is transferred over multiple domains and you must preserve the
identity, integrity, and security of the message across multiple trusted domains or points.
WS-Security provides an end-to-end solution for Web service security.
WSDL Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based language that captures the
mechanical information a client needs to access a Web service: definitions of message formats,
SOAP details, and a destination URL. WSDL provides a simple way for service providers to
describe the basic format of requests to their systems regardless of the underlying protocol (such
as Simple Object Access Protocol or XML).
X
XML Extensible Markup Language, a standard for tagging data in an HTML document, which describes
as to provide semantic information about content elements.
XML schemas XML schemas express shared vocabularies and allow machines to carry out rules made by people.
They provide a means for defining the structure, content, and semantics of XML documents.
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