A business integration scenario drives the choice of one adapter service or another. This section provides a simple flow chart that helps you to choose the service to use. Not all adapters provide all services and some adapters may provide additional services not listed here. See your adapter user’s guide for details.
In this scenario, data must be exchanged between the application X and another application. The other application could be a customer management system, such as PeopleSoft, or another TIBCO application, such as TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.
To decide the adapter service to configure in the adapter, start by finding out where the scenario begins—what triggers it. Is the scenario triggered by an event inside the application X, or inside the other application?
For example, when a new customer account is created in application X, must the account information also be propagated via the adapter to the other application? Or does a batch business process in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks need information from application X to generate some report?
Working through the decision chart, if the business process is the creation of a customer record in application X and if many other applications need to be updated when the event occurs, but no acknowledgements are required, the adapter’s publication service should be used.
