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Component | Executable Path | ps id | Config. |
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BW Administrator | /home/tibco/tibco/tra/domain/domain | tibcoadmin | tibcoadmin.conf |
BW Designer | C:\Tibco\designer\5.4\bin\ | designer.exe | - |
LDAP | - | - | \tibco\tra\domain\domain\ AuthorizationDomain.properties |
TRA Domain Utility | /home/tibco/tibco/tra/5.4/bin | domainutility domainutilitycmd | domainutility.tra |
TIBCO Hawk | /tibco/tra/domain/domain | hawkagent | - |
EMS Server Console | /opt/tibco/ems/bin/ | tibemsadmin | - |
EMS Agent | /opt/tibco/ems/bin/ | tibemsd | - |
Rendezvous agent | - | rva | - |
Rendezvous daemon | - | rvd | - |
Remote untrusted Java applets and other client applications connect and communite with the Rendezvous agent (rva) which in turn connects to the Rendezvous daemon (rvd).
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3rd party applications services supported by TIBCO include:
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If the palette cannot directly communicate with a vendor app to obtain metadata, a Design-Time Adapter (DTA) can be used to make use of vendor client libraries to communicate with that vendor app.
The process starter "Receive" resource is accessed via a "JMS Queue Receiver" activity.
The "ShippingSchedule" resource is accessed via a "SOAP Request Reploy" activity. It retrieves information about the shipping schedule from the Shipping web site and adds shipping info. to the order.
If it can't enter the order into the Siebel system right away of if shipping is delayed, it sends an email to the customer.
A "start" activity is called explicitly from another process.
Complex business processes are structure with a main process and several subprocesses. This makes processes easier to understand and debug, and reuse.
Other adapters include:
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Category | ? | Palette | Activity |
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Adapters | - | ActiveDatabase Adapter | ActiveDatabaseAdapterConfiguration, ADBServer, ADBPublisher, ADBSubscriber |
Activities | x | Active Enterprise (AE) Adapter | [activities that publish messages to a specified adapter or invoke an operation by way of an adapter] |
Adapters | x | Adapter Resources | Generic Transaction Control Pool, PublicationService, Adapter Archive, MessageFilter, Log Sink Role, RequestResponseService, SubscriptionService, GenericAdapterConfiguration, GenericSession, Timer, RequestResponseInvocationService, Subscriber, Generic Log Sink, Client, Publisher, Advisory, Server, LoadURL |
Adapters | - | Adapter Schemas | Generic Scalar, AESchema, Generic Union, Generic Sequence, Operation, Generic Class, Association |
Activities | x | BusinessEvents Activities | Wait for Event, Send Event, Receive Event |
Other | - | BusinessEvents State Modeler | Composite, Concurrent, CallStateMachine, End, StateMachine, Sample |
General | - | BusinessEvents Workbench | RuleFunction, RuleSet, ScoreCard, NewTimeEvent, BusinessEvents Archive, Rule, Destination, NewConcept, ConceptView, NewsEvent, Channel |
Activities | x | FTP | FTP Rename File, FTP SYS Type, FTP Dir, FTP Make Remote Directory, FTP Get Default Directory, FTP Remove Remote Directory, FTP Put, , FTP Get, FTP Delete File, FTP Connection, FTP Change Default Directory, FTP Quote |
Activities | - | File | Rename File, Create File, List Files, Copy File, Read File, Wait for File Change, File Poller, Write File, Remove File |
Adapters | x | File Adapter | FileAdapterConfiguration, ReadSchema, WriteSchema, SubscriptionService, PublicationService, PositionalFileRecord, DelimitedFileRecord |
General | x | General | Identity, EnterpriseArchive, Text Document, Folder, LibraryBuilder, Generic Image Resource, AliasLibrary, TaskList |
Activities | x | General Activities | Timer, Checkpoint, Log, Confirm, Job Shared Variable, Map Data, Catch, Wait, JNDI Configuration, Null, Notify, onNotificationTimeout, onStartup, Notify Configuration, Engine Command, Rethrow, Generate Error, SetVariable, Custom Activity, Sleep, onShutdown, Receive Notification, Inspector, Shared Variable, Lock, Call Process, External Command, onEventTimeout, Label, GetVariable, Assign |
Activities | x | HTTP | HTTP Connection, HTTP Receiver, Proxy Configuration, Send HTTP Request, Send HTTP Response, Wait for HTTP Request |
Activities | x | JDBC (Java DataBase Connection) | JDBC Get Connection, JDBC Connection, JDBC Call Procedure, JDBC Query, SQL Direct, JDBC Update |
Activities | x | JMS | JMS Topic Publisher, JMS Topic Requestor, JMS Queue Requestor, JMS Connection, Wait for JMS Queue Message, JMS Topic Subscriber, Wait for JMS Topic Message, JMS Queue Receiver, JMS Application Properties, Reply to JMS Message, JMS Queue Sender, Get JMS Queue Message |
Activities | x | Java (EJB, JNDI) | JavaCustomFunction, Java Method, Java Global Instance, Java To XML, Java Schema, XML To Java, Java Event Source, Java Code |
Activities | - | Receive Mail, Send Mail | |
Activities | x | Manual Work | [interacts with TIBCO InConcert] WaitForCompletion, ModifyWork, AssignWork, GetWorkStatus, WorkflowServerConnection, WorkflowSchema, DownloadDocument |
Activities | x | Parse (XSLT data transform using DTD or XSD or TIBCO AE Schema) | Parse Data, Data Format, Render Data |
Activities | x | Policy | Security Policy, Security Policy Association |
General | x | Process | Process Definition, Process Archive |
Activities | x | Rendezvous | Publish Rendezvous Message, Wait for Rendezvous Message, Reply to Rendezvous Request, Rendezvous Transport, Rendezvous Subscriber |
General | x | Repository | Repository Instance, Object, Directory, Repository Finder |
Activities | - | RMI | RMI Lookup, RMI Server |
Activities | x | SOAP (procsses WSDL) | SOAPSendFault, SOAPSendReply, SOAPEventSource, SOAPRequestReply, RetrieveResources |
Other | x | Service | Content Resource, Service, SetContext, GetContext |
Activities | x | TCP | Read TCP Data, TCP Receiver, Wait for TCP Request, Write TCP Data, TCP Connection, TCP Open Connection, TCP Close Connection |
Activities | x | Transaction | JTA UserTransaction Configuration, XA TransactionManager Configuration, Transaction State |
General | x | WSDL | PortType, Operation, WSDL, Message |
General | x | XML Tools | Instance, Schema, DTD |
Activities | x | XML Activities | XSLT File, Parse XML, Render XML, Render XML, Transform XML |
The jar files for these are stored in directory $TIBCO_HOME/bw/5.3/lib/palettes.
"Java Code" is the name of General Purpose custom activities written in Java.
Custom adapters can be created by programmers referencing the TIBCO Adapter SDK suite. Its documentation:
TIBCO Designer Palette Reference Guide (280 pages)
TIBCO BusinessWorks Palette Reference describes each of the palettes available in TIBCO BusinessWorks.
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EMS implements the ConnectionConsumer interface of the Java Messaging Service JMS 1.1 specification for application servers followed only by JBoss. JNDI names QueueConnectionFactory and TopicConnectionFactory are mapped to the JBoss ConnectionFactory in file &JBOSS_DEPLOY%\jms\jbossmq-service.xml.
For other servers (such as Borland), EMS tibjmsapps.jar (com\tibco\tibjms\appserver) has JBossAdapter.class, TibjmsService.class, and TibjmsServiceBean.class.
JBoss configuration files :
Other EMS client jars include crimson.jar (org\apache for sax), jaxp.jar (xml parser), jems.jar (javax\jms), jndi.jar, jta-spec1_0_1.jar (javax\transaction\xa), tibjms.jar (com\tibco\tibjms), tibjmsapps.jar (com\tibco\tibjms\admin\hawk), tibrvjms.jar (com\tibco\tibbrv)
Point-to-point EMS queues (defined in file queues.conf) are used to import messages from producers in external systems.
Queues have defined properties maxmsgs, overflowPolicy, maxRedelivery,
exclusive, prefetch
What are their performance impact?
Publish-subscrbe (broadcasted) EMS topics are used to import and export messages to/from external systems via TIBCO Rendezvous.
RVDQ is for load balancing
RVFT is for fault tolerance.
RVCM (Rendezvous Certified Messaging) Listeners are set in file tibrvcm.conf.
tibrvcm transports can store information about subjects in a ledger file used for recovery.
The application should only send a Certified message (CM) once, because TIBCO ensures it is received.
Transports are are set in file transports.conf.
File tibemsd.conf defines the tibrv_transports enabled.
What is the performance impact of Flow Control
when message producers send messages much faster than message consumers can receive them.
Where to specify that a queue receiver can receive a batch of messages in the
background to improve performance.
Where to specify fail safe mode that allows messages to be written to disk synchronously
to guarantee no messages are ever lost due to server failure.
What is the performance impact of guaranteed message delivery (GMD) ?
Dynamic queues created on-the-fly by applications do not appear in configuration files which define static queues. These are marked with an asterisk (*).
EMS configuration files include: • users • groups • topics • queues • access lists • destination bridges • routes • connection factories • transports • RVCM listeners • durable subscribers
EMS fault tolerance is setup as a pair of primary and secondary servers sharing the same state.
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Initiator From | Target | Event Mode | Ack Req? | Service |
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Vendor application | TIBCO infrastructure | Asynchronous | No | Publishing service (sends to target) |
Vendor application | TIBCO infrastructure | Synchronous | Yes | Request-response invocation service (sends to target, waits for response, then sends response to initiator) |
TIBCO infrastructure | Vendor application | Asynchronous | No | Subscribing service (gets from initiator) |
TIBCO infrastructure | Vendor application | Synchronous | Yes | Request-response service (gets from initiator, waits for response then sends response to target) |
Wait for Adapter Message
Wait for Adapter Request
request/reply,
publish/subscribe
publish/reply
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Component | Linux Installer | Fixup | Fixup |
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TRA | TRA.5.4.0-suite_linux24g123_x86.bin | - | |
TRA.5.4.2-suite_linux24g123_x86.bin | - | ||
BW Admin | TIB_bw-tibcoadmin-epe-simple_5.3.0_linux86_24.bin | ClassPath, Server Name | |
BW | TIB_bw-simple_5.3.0_linux24g122_x86.bin | - | |
TIB_bw-simple_5.3.2_linux24g122_x86.bin | - | ||
EMS Server | TIB_ems-simple_4.3.0_linux24g123_x86.bin | - | |
Hawk (that comes with TRA) | TIB_hawk-suite_4.5.0_w32.exe ??? | - |
set read write permissions on the whole install tree:
chmod 777
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TRA | TIBCO Rendezvous 7.5.1 & 7.5.2 | C:\tibco\tibrv | 30.2 MB |
Java Runtime Environment 1.5.0 | C:\tibco\jre\1.5.0 | 107.4 MB | |
Third Party Core Libraries 5.4.0 | C:\tibco\tpcl\5.4 | 114.7 MB | |
TIBCO Hawk 4.6.1 | C:\tibco\hawk | 16.1 MB | |
TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.4.0 & 5.4.2 | C:\tibco\tra\5.4 | 95.6 MB | |
TIBCO Designer 5.4.0 | C:\tibco\designer\5.4 | 20.0 MB | |
Admin | TIBCO Administrator 5.3 | C:\tibco\administrator\5.3 | 56.7 MB |
BW | TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.3.0 | C:\tibco\bw\5.3 | 10.2 MB |
TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.3.2 | 10.2 MB | ||
EMS | TIBCO EMS 4.3.0 | C:\tibco\ems | 85.0 MB |
Adapter for ActiveDatabase | TIBCO Adapter for ActiveDatabase 5.2.2 | C:\tibco\adapter\adadb\5.2 | 71.4 MB |
Adapter for Files | TIBCO Adapter for Files 5.5.0 | C:\tibco\adapter\adfiles\5.5 | 26.5 MB |
Adapter for Events | TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Edition 1.4.0 | C:\tibco\adapter\be\1.4 | 38.1 MB |
The default domain name is localdev.
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Component | default | Better | |
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BW Tomcat | HTTP | 8080 | 8888 |
AJP 1.3 | 8009 | ||
Shutdown | 8005 | ||
Apache Warp Connector | 8008 | ||
EMS | HTTP | 7222 | |
HTTPS (using SSL) | 7243 | ||
TIBCO Hawk | 7474 | ||
Rendezvous Daemon service tcp: | 7500 | ||
LDAP | 389 | ||
TIBCO SmartSockets tcp: | 5101 | ||
XML Canon Tomcat | HTTP | 8088 | 8088 |
HTTPS | 8443 | ||
Shutdown | 8011 | ||
Database | 1433 | ||
TIBCO Thin Client | 1521 |
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Component | Log Path | Diag. | Prod. |
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TIBCO Administrator | /home/tibco/tibco/tra/domain/domain/log | - | - |
TIBCO Hawk | ? | - | - |
TRA Domain Utility | /home/tibco/tibco/tra/5.4/logs | - | - |
LDAP calls | home\tibco\tibco\tra\domain\domain\logs\ administrator.log | - | - |
EMS Server | /opt/tibco/ems/log/ | - | - |
BW Apps | /tra/domain/domain/applcation/logs/ appname-parfile.log | - | - |
In Designer, under the Logging tab of Generic Adapter configuration, unchecking the Advanced Logging checkbox enables uses to specify the roles and sinks holding logs. Unchecked, Designer by default provides under "LogSinks" "FileSink" (the default Log File) and "stdioSink" (for Standard I/O). The Logging tab controls default roles info, warning, and error messages.
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Add Resource to RCS Acquire-Check out Resource Acquire-Check out Resource Following References Release-Revert Resource View RCS Info for Resource Check in Changes Synchronize Project |
Unlike XML files in Sun J2EE
compliant systems,
TIBCO internally uses a proprietary (undocumented) XML schema
that may change from version to version.
This means that a "diff" between what has been saved by SCM tools (CVS, Subversion, etc.).
Deploy on multiple environments throughout the development cycle (such as UnitTest, System Test, Performance Test, UAT, Beta, Staging, Production, etc.) require unique host names, etc..
To diff (identify differences between versions) checked in during a system's evolution,
TIBCO provides its
XML Canon
product as a central repository that enables reuse of XML Schema and vocabularies.
XML Canon understands the relationship between the various types of XML documents and uses that understanding to render XML SchemaDOCs.
A "schema" defines the classes, scalars (global variables), associations, unions, and sequences within a particular "namespace".
"Components" of XML include element, attribute, types, etc.
Only schemas, WSDL files and TIBCO BusinessWorks process definition files are analyzed for schema and component level relationships by TIBCO XML Canon. XML Canon prefixes such files with an asterisk.
TIBCO Business Studio Version 2 introduced version control using "Business Studio Asset Central".
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