Using XMLink Universal Gateway

About This Document

What You Need to Know

This document is intended for application developers interested in accessing services deployed on an Enterprise Information System (EIS) from an Oracle Tuxedo application. It assumes a familiarity with Oracle Tuxedo applications as well as with concepts and technologies used in conjunction with services on enterprise application servers.

Even though XMLink Universal Gateway can be used with any SOAP-enabled HTTP server, this document describes its use with IBM WebSphere.

Documentation Website

The documentation website includes the Using XMLink Universal Gateway manual in HTML and PDF formats and enables you to search the HTML files for information.

This documentation is also distributed with the product either in the docs directory or on the product CD.

XMLink Universal Gateway product documentation is available on the Prolifics corporate website at http://docs.prolifics.com/xug/.

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