MQSeries.net :: View topic - New: LIXA 0.7.3 tested with WebSphere MQ 7.1

camauz

Dear All,

I'm the founder of the LIXA (LIbre XA) project (http://lixa.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/lixa/) and I'm announcing the availability of release 0.7.3, the first release tested with WebSphere MQ (7.1 on CentOS 6.2 32 bit).
LIXA is an XA compliant Transaction Manager: it strictly adheres to XA specification (https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/jsp/publications/PublicationDetails.jsp?catalogno=c193) and it provides a standard TX (Transaction Demarcation) Specification API (https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/jsp/publications/PublicationDetails.jsp?publicationid=11221) to allow developers implementing two phase commit transactions.
The Resource Managers currently tested for LIXA usage are: WebSphere MQ 7.1 (new entry), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle and DB2.

These are the features provided by LIXA in conjunction with WebSphere MQ:
- XA dynamic and static transaction registration (xa_start/ax_reg)
- one phase commit optimization (when only one resource manager must commit)
- no need to configure WebSphere MQ as a XA Transaction Manager
- multiple access to the same database, using different user/passwords, from a single LIXA environment/configuration, by different applications
- support for WebSphere MQ bind (server) API and WebSphere MQ Extended Transactional Client API
- support for Distributed Transaction Processing with PostgreSQL and MySQL
- you don't have to run your Application Program in the same system of the desired queue manager

Please pay attention LIXA is free and open source software: it's not commercial distributed nor commercial supported. LIXA project is developed using Linux and gcc: different UNIXes might be possible, but have not been tested until now.

If you were interested in the development of the LIXA project, you could join lixa mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=lixa-general

Regards,
Ch.F.