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Chapter 1 Introduction : Accessing TIBCO Object Service Broker from an External Environment

Accessing TIBCO Object Service Broker from an External Environment
What is an External Environment?
All programs and applications run on an operating system platform, and often within a transaction manager such as CICS. In this manual these systems and transaction managers are referred to as external environments. Although applications can be written in different languages and have different areas of focus, they are sustained by, and commonly share the resources of, the environment where they run, as shown in the following diagram:
TIBCO Object Service Broker is Open to Its External Environments
In a similar way, TIBCO Object Service Broker makes its data and resources available to those applications that can make use of its Call Level Interface. Also, from within TIBCO Object Service Broker, users can access external routines and external data if they reside in the same address space as the session, as shown in the following diagram:
Facilities Available for Interfacing with External Environments
The following facilities provide access to and from the TIBCO Object Service Broker environment:
TIBCO Object Service Broker clients
TIBCO Service Gateway for WMQ
TIBCO Object Service Broker SDK (C/C++)
TIBCO Object Service Broker SDK (Java)
TIBCO Object Service Broker 3270 Access Adapter

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