XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems

2.2. Tamino Architecture and APIs

Figure 2.1 provides an overview of Tamino's architecture. The primary access to Tamino XML Server is via HTTP—that is, via one or more Web servers, which may be local or remote to the Tamino server. This makes the Internet and an intranet first-class clients of Tamino. Tamino provides the so-called X-Port component (i.e., an extension for the most popular Web servers, which guarantees efficient communication between a Web server and the Tamino XML Server using Software AG's TCP/IP-based transport software XTS—extended transport system—which supports SSL-protected communication). If the client application uses SSL communication with the Web server, the whole path from client application to Tamino database server ...