iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer's Guide

What’s New in This Guide

iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer’s Guide—522292-002

New and Changed Information

The ATP 2.1 release of this guide includes the following additions and changes:

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Added new subsection, IEEE Floating-Point Support on page 1-6, to describe ATP’s

new support for the IEEE floating-point standard.

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Rewrote Section 2, Installing and Running ATP, to describe a new and improved

installation process.

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Deleted obsolete information from Section 2, Installing and Running ATP:

The ATP Makefile is no longer used.

It is no longer necessary to manually relink ATP libraries and objects with a

different CGI library; it is now done automatically.

NonStop SQL connectivity is now automatic.

You are no longer required to do command-line configuration changes using the

nld tool.

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Added new subsection, HTTP Object on page 4-2, to describe the client-side HTTP

protocol support for communication with HTTP servers. This API is part of the ATP

core package.

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Added new subsection, ATPException Object on page 4-14, to describe the

ATPException object, which contains error information defined by the ATP objects,

such as Inet.HTTP and XML.DOMDocument.

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Added new Section 5, XML for ATP Add-On Module to describe the optional XML

for ATP, which provides a standardized way to access and manipulate the

information stored in XML documents.

The DOM Objects API serves as a bridge between applications and XML

documents, enabling applications to work with XML document structures and

information as program structures rather than as text streams. Applications and

scripts can read and manipulate these structures without knowing the details of

XML syntax.

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Added new Appendix E, XML for ATP Tools, to describe the XML for ATP add-on

tools, ATP WSDL Wizard and ATP WSDL Viewer.

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Added new Appendix F, ATP Examples to show descriptions and locations of ATP

example files, including examples for the XML for ATP add-on package. Removed

some of the examples from the end of Section 3 to this appendix.

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Changed the second example under Parameters in SQL Statements on page 4-21

based on feedback from QA.

Note. The content of this manual, 522292-002, is exactly the same as that in 522292-001. The

only difference is that the page numbers in the Glossary are now corrected.