Required and Optional TIBCO Products

Install one or more other TIBCO products, depending on the tasks you want to perform. The following table describes the required and optional products and their purpose.

Required and Optional TIBCO Products

Software

Description

TIBCO Software

The software products below are distributed and installed separately from this product.

See the readme file for the supported versions.

TIBCO Rendezvous

Required. TIBCO Rendezvous must be installed before installing TRA™.

TIBCO Runtime Agent™

Required. TRA supplies a number of TIBCO and third-party libraries used by ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and other TIBCO products both at design-time and runtime. This includes, for example, TIBCO Rendezvous software.

You must install TRA on each machine that hosts a ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks process engine. TRA must be installed before you install ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.

TIBCO Designer™

Required. TIBCO Designer is an easy to use graphical user interface for design-time configuration of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.

TIBCO Designer is installed as part of the TRA installation.

TIBCO Administrator

Required. TIBCO Administrator is available in two editions, Repository Edition and Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition is required for ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks. Administrator includes the following modules:

  • User Management. Management of authentication, roles and users, that is, connecting roles (groups) and users to access control lists (ACLs). This includes security for deployed applications at runtime.

  • Resource Management. Monitoring of machines and of all running applications in a TIBCO administration domain. Alerts can be created, for example, to notify an administrator if the number of processes or disk usage exceed a certain number.

  • Application Management. Uploading of Enterprise Archive (EAR) files, creation, configuration, deployment, and monitoring of applications. This console is also used to start and stop applications.

TIBCO Administrator is available as a separate installation and can be installed after installing ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service

Optional. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) enables you to send messages from your applications in a format that conforms to the Java Messaging Service (JMS) specification. It also provides a reliable delivery mode and a no-acknowledge acknowledgement mode.

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is available as a separate installation and can be installed after ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is installed.