rwb@viusys.uucp (Rick) (09/21/90)
I'm looking to develop a rather simple transactional application, and I'm wondering if there's any code out there to help it along. Basically, I'm looking to have a user enter a transaction-id, and some data, which would be read by a transaction manager, which would then queue it to an appropriate free-running program to perform the transaction. There will be multiple transaction types, and multiple copies of each transaction handler. This manager would have to handle queuing, in case of a handler being busy, and the hand-off mechanism should involve some type of IPC, (mmap, SYSV message, or some such) for performance reasons. I really don't want to have to go out and buy something (Tuxedo?) for such a small system. I'm perfectly willing to hack on something that might come close to this, I'm just looking for something to get me started. Does anybody have such a beastie they might be willing to share? Thanks, Rick