Welcome to LIXA site (old)

This site still contains many useful information, but the most up-to-date contents are published in the new LIXA site www.tiian.org/lixa.

LIXA (LIbre XA) is an open source and free Transaction Manager implementing the distributed transaction processing "XA specification" and "TX (transaction demarcation) specification" according to the X/Open CAE Specification. LIXA is a Transaction Manager but it's not a Transaction Monitor: this is the distinguishing feature of the project.

LIXA technology enables every application container, like a web server or a shell, to become an XA compliant application server. The client/server architecture of LIXA allows many application containers to share a single LIXA (state) server: this is ideal when horizontal scalability is a must and many identical application containers must refer to a single transactional environment. Performance, scalability and high availability are key features of the project.

Resources

• Sourceforge main page
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• Mailing list
• Bug list
• Request for new features list
• GitHub LIXA link
• OpenHUB LIXA link

Available documentation

• LIXA reference guide (HTML, one page per chapter)
• LIXA reference guide (HTML, printer frendly)
• XTA - XA Transaction API
• XTA - XA Transaction API reference for the C language
• XTA - XA Transaction API reference for the C++ language (useful even for Python developers)
• XTA - XA Transaction API reference for the Java language
• Distributed Transaction Processing: Reference Model, Version 3
• Distributed TP: The XA Specification
• Distributed TP: The TX (Transaction Demarcation) Specification
• obsolete LIXA Extensions reference guide (HTML, one page per chapter)
• obsolete LIXA Extensions reference guide (HTML, printer frendly)

Feedback

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