Preface
Purpose of this Document
The goal of this document is to assist an experienced system
manager, system administrator, or application programmer to
understand the Reliable Transaction Router (RTR) product.
Document Structure
This document contains the following chapters:
• Chapter 1, Introduction to RTR, provides information on
RTR technology, basic RTR concepts, and RTR terminology.
• Chapter 2, Architectural Concepts, introduces the RTR
three-layer model and explains ths use of RTR functions and
programming capabilities.
• Chapter 3, Reliability Features, highlights RTR server types
and failover and recovery scenarios.
• Chapter 4, RTR Interfaces, introduces the management and
programming interfaces of RTR.
• Chapter 5, The RTR Environment, describes the RTR
system management and runtime environments, and
provides explicit pointers to further reading in the RTR
documentation set.
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