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Phase 3: Services Configuration

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks uses different types of services that can be accessed from within the process:

•	Adapter services are configured using TIBCO Designer and the Design-Time Adapter (DTA). The services can then be accessed from the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks process.

•	Web services can be configured from TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks or externally, and accessed using the SOAP Request-Reply activity.

This section gives an overview of adapter configuration see Phase 3: Services Configuration, for more information. It then discusses the services used by the example.

Adapter Configuration Overview

Adapter services send data to and receive data from your business process. Data can come, for example, from an application such as PeopleSoft, SAP R/3, and so on, from a legacy source, from a database, or from the Internet. The following service types are supported:

•	Adapter publisher service—Sends data from the source application to the business process.

•	Adapter subscriber service—Receives data in the source application from the business process.

•	Adapter client service—Acts as a client in a request-response interaction.

•	Adapter server service—Acts as a server in a request-response interaction.

When designing and implementing the integration project, you must identify the adapter services precisely. This includes connection parameters such as the names of the host application, their location, and so on.

You then configure a service with the appropriate adapter and save it as part of your project. To configure an adapter first provide connection information. A Design-Time Adapter (DTA) allows you to access the metadata provided by the adapter at design time. Each type of adapter has its own DTA. Only one DTA needs to run in a network, even if several users access different adapter instances of that adapter type. With configuration complete, you save the adapter service configuration. The adapter service can then be used by the activities in your business process and later be invoked at runtime. For example, a Publish to Adapter activity expects an adapter subscriber service that receives the data being published.

For more introductory information, see Phase 3: Services Configuration. The User’s Guide for each adapter contains detailed set-up information for that adapter.

Web Services Overview

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks can function both as a server and a client in a web services interaction.

For additional information, see the SOAP palette activities and the WSDL file activity in the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Process Design Guide.

Services Used by the Example

The example needs to access four services from which it retrieves or to which it sends information:

•	The application server is configured externally. It is accessed via a JMS Queue Receiver.

•	To access the PeopleSoft Order Management system, you configure a PeopleSoft request-response adapter. The adapter is accessed via an Invoke an Adapter Request-Response Service activity.

•	To access the Siebel customer service system, you configure a Siebel adapter subscriber service. A Publish to Adapter activity can then connect the process to the adapter subscriber service.

•	The Shipping web service is configured externally. It is accessed via a SOAP Request Reply activity.

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