TIBCO ActiveMatrix BW Key Concepts

The concepts map provides an summary of the key concepts that you may encounter when working by the product. Some of these concepts are appropriate to design viewpoint or runtime and administration perspective alone, while some are applicable to both perspectives.

ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks consists of a design-time where you can develop applications that apply business logic, the runtime where you execute the applications, and the administration component where you deploy and manage applications in the runtime. The ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks runtime is an ecosystem of entities that can be co-located or distributed. The bwadmin utility and TIBCO  Enterprise Administrator allow you to deploy, monitor and manage the applications.

ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is based on open architecture, flexibility, modularity, and support for standards.

Flexibility

ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is designed to make adding, upgrading, and swapping of business

components easy.

Flexible architecture is demonstrated through:

● A zero coding model that allows the users to select and drop activities onto the Process Editor and

configure the activities in the UI.

● Ability to build tightly coupled as well as loosely coupled services.

● Ability to manage the process state that is maintained across invocations either by the runtime

container (process engine) or by the process implementation.

● Ability to build strongly typed as well as loosely typed service implementations.

● Ability to specify application configuration to be either hard-coded or late-bound.

● Encapsulation of configuration data, thus minimizing the configuration properties exposed by the application.

Openness and Extensibility

Openness and extensibility features include:

● Public APIs which allow you to develop custom activities and XPath functions.

● Integration with standard Java classes and OSGi Java services to supplement the process or model driven approach.

● Extensible OSGi based runtime.

● Extensible Eclipse-based design-time.

● Extensible TIBCO Enterprise Administration based administration framework.

Modularity

Modularity of the product supports:

● Large teams and distributed development through modular constructs.

● Increased visibility and traceability metadata, such as Name, Version, Exported Functionality, and Dependencies.

● Reusability with a consistent model across different technologies: Processes, Java Classes, XSDs, WSDLs, and shared resources.

Standards-based

Supported standards include:

● Data representation and transformation: Native support for XML, XSD, XPath, JSON, XSLT

● Protocols/API: SOAP, JSON/REST, WSDL, HTTP, HTTPS, JMS, JDBC

● TIBCO: TIBCO Rendezvous , TIBCO Enterprise Message Service  (EMS), TIBCO AE Schema

● Others: FTP, JNDI, SMTP, TCP