Chapter 4. SALT – Service Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo

In this chapter, we will discuss Service Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT). The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been proven in the industry today, and SALT was introduced to make the Tuxedo application an integral part of the SOA environment. By looking at the Tuxedo architecture, we can certainly claim that Tuxedo is one of the oldest forms of SOA platforms. Everything in Tuxedo is a service and invoked as a service, and they are very loosely coupled. It is known for its performance, scalability, and reliability. The SCA-based (Service Component Architecture) development provides us with a more complete SOA solution, and with SALT we can connect with the Tuxedo framework, enabling the re-use of its services and giving a better ROI. SALT is a Tuxedo add-on product; one of its components is the SCA container, which enables any applications based on web services to call Tuxedo services and vice versa. The other component...