From: "Geo." 

"mike"  wrote in message
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>
> Where I work, we have the externally-facing web servers on one box, they
> redirect the request to another box running jboss servers, which then
> access a cluster of nodes for Oracle.
>
> Trying to debug a transaction when there are millions of hits per day is
> tough enough, even tougher when the clocks are not sync'd.

I have an NT web server that the client talks to, the web server talks to a
transaction server which talks to the backend AIX database which then
forwards a credit card request back to the transaction server then across
the internet to the transaction processor then from there to the bank back
to the transaction processor, to my transaction server to the AIX server
where the result is sent back thru the transaction server to the web server
and finally to the client.

Since we use a transaction number instead of an insane method of trying to
sync up everyone's clocks tracking a transaction is a piece of cake.

Geo.

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