FOUNDATION TME

(Transaction Management Environment)

FOUNDATION TME is a run-time client/server architecture and extensive library of services and provides solutions to problems encountered in developing client/server applications targeted for multiple platforms (MacOS, Win95, WinNT, OS/2, Unix) through:

  • An architecture that isolates the application from the underlying technology
  • Software solution sets to common problems
  • A knowledge base that provides for customization and reduced programming time

Developers face a variety of issues when designing and developing client/server applications including GUI standards, transaction management, configuration management, real-time version control, security, auditing, and error handling. Current client/server development efforts tend to focus on the GUI without sufficient emphasis on operational and integration requirements that are needed as client/server applications grow in an organization.

FOUNDATION TME provides:

  • Session and communications management supporting TCP/IP, AppleTalk, X.25, ARA, and asynchronous
  • Security for sessions, authorizations, transactions, and data
  • Window management
  • User-customized preferences
  • Error facility for managing and servicing application and system errors
  • Extended help and reference facility for immediate access
  • Infrastructure for routing and servicing application transactions
  • Architecture for support of real-time version control, and configuration management and rule-based services for application components
  • Automated transaction validation/editing facility

FOUNDATION TME is compatible with most commercial client/GUI development environments, including Open Interface, Open UI, MacApp, and Microsoft Foundation Classes, Metrowerks (PowerPlant).

Business Results Summary: FOUNDATION TME provides libraries, service components, and an open architecture that is vendor supported, thereby reducing the effort and costs associated with designing, developing, and maintaining business applications. It provides an infrastructure to address the complexities of client/server computing. Its use of meta data constructs for application components eliminates much of the traditional programming.

System Software Required: C, C++ Compiler and one of Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Unix, Linux

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