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> My current focus is on Tamino. I'm looking for others to confirm my
> initial findings, and help me find the relevant stuff to look into.
>
> I've a hard time wading through docs, figuring out how to position
> the various techologies, solutions, components. Especially: those
> related to both client and server-side programming. As far as I can
> tell after close-reading sessions this morning, there're three ways:
>
> (1) Tamino API for Java
> (2) X-Application (application framework)
> (3) X-Tension (server extensions)
>
> Number (1) looks like a client-side way to access Tamino, wrapping-up
> each call to a DOM/SAX API in HTTP requests with parameters.
>
> Number (2) is based on Java modules addressed through some JSP tag
> libraries and is definately a server-side approach;
>
> Number (3) looks like another server technology to do non-standard
> processing of XML documents similar to the options offered by, for
> example, XSLT extension functions. I assume this is relevant to an
> application that transforms some external data to an XML-format. The
> docs mention "(...) access to legacy processes through EntireX, ..."
>
> Any comments from regular Tamino developers?
You should raise this on the Tamino developer forum at
http://www.tamino.com/ - that's where all the Tamino experts congregate.
You've got it roughly right. The terms "client" and "server" here are
confusing; if you think of a three-tier architecture (browser, application
tier, database server), then (1) and (2) are both primarily
application-tier, though (1) could also be used in a desktop Java
application or from an applet, while (3) is a database back-end technology.
I think of X-Application as a higher-level toolkit for building visual
applications based on JSP, while the Java API is lower-level. X-Tension is
for writing things that execute behind the scenes in response to database
queries, e.g. fetching data from a remote application and returning it in
the XML results of a query.
EntireX is Software AG's middleware for distributed computing.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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