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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design
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Operating Systems: Concurrent and Distributed Software Design

by Jean Bacon, Tim Harris
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 17m
English
Pearson Business
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30.1. Transaction processing monitors

Transaction processing applications were introduced in Chapter 1 and the theory underlying the correct execution of transactions was the core topic of Part III. A TP monitor coordinates the flow of information between users at terminals who issue transaction requests and TP applications that process the requests. Much of the integration of the software components (operating systems, communications and database management systems (DBMSs)) that are used by TP applications is done by the TP monitor. Figure 30.1 gives a model for a TP monitor, which follows Bernstein (1990). It is assumed that each transaction selects a pre-specified application service program. This is in contrast with a database transaction, ...

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