Years ago, when I worked as an Application Support Analyst for a big triple-A Bank, I got acquainted with the BEA product stack.

One of those products was BEA Tuxedo, at that time at the release of 6. I worked at a settlements project, and Tuxedo was used for as distributed transaction processing, to process settlements an clearing messageg from the bank to an international Clearing an Settlements Project, called CLS. It used the SWIFT network to connect; CLS  was an international and timezone independent settlements and clearance platform to overcome timezone and bankrupt issues, and prevent a domino effect when an important bank in the chain becomes bankrupt.

Tuxedo is a transaction processing system or transaction-oriented middleware, or enterprise application server for a variety of systems and programming languages.

Tuxedo was designed for high availability and to provide  scalable applications to support a lot  transactions per second on commonly available distributed systems. It was developed and designed by AT&T  if that required online transaction processing (OLTP) capabilities.

Tuxedo is a  message routing and queuing system. Requests are sent to named services More >