Overview of Administration

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Chapter 1 Introduction : Overview of Administration

Overview of Administration

A TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks project has the following lifecycle:

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Design

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Deploy

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Run

Figure 1 illustrates the lifecycle of a TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks project.

Figure 1 Project lifecycle

The design phase involves creating and testing the project using TIBCO Designer. During the deployment phase, you use TIBCO Designer to create an Enterprise Archive file (EAR file) that contains the required resources for running the project. Then, you use TIBCO Administrator to deploy the project to the machine(s) where it will run. In the run time phase, the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks process engine executes the process instances of the deployed project and TIBCO Administrator can be used to monitor and manage the process engine.

This manual describes the deployment and run time phases of the project lifecycle. The design phase is described in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design Guide.

TIBCO Administrator

TIBCO Administrator is a central administration server for TIBCO products. You create, deploy, and manage applications in TIBCO Administrator using a web-browser-based interface. There is also a set of command-line utilities available for creating EAR files and deploying applications. See TIBCO Administrator User’s Guide for more information about TIBCO Administrator.