ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Project Phases
When process design is complete and all testing from the TIBCO Designer GUI results in success, the project is ready for deployment.
The illustration below shows how a project moves through the development and deployment phases.
Figure 42: Project development phases
Procedure
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Using TIBCO Designer, the developer configures adapter services and saves the project with configured adapters. Different adapters could potentially be configured by different developers and included in one project.
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Using TIBCO Designer, the developer configures activities for the business process(es) and saves the project, which now includes process definition(s).
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The built-in test mode is used for preliminary testing and debugging of the business process(es).
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Using TIBCO Designer, the developer prepares the Enterprise Archive File (EAR file) by creating Enterprise Archives containing the desired adapter configurations and process definitions.
At this stage, the developer moves from the TIBCO Designer development GUI to the TIBCO Administrator run-time GUI and performs these tasks:
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From the TIBCO Administrator GUI, the deployment configuration is created and deployed. The TIBCO Administration Server sends all necessary information to the individual machines. All components now become visible in the TIBCO Administrator GUI (but are not started).
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From the TIBCO Administrator GUI, the developer starts each component (adapter and process engine). As a result, all process starters are waiting for the events that cause them to create process instances.
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Each time an event arrives that triggers a process starter, the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks engine creates a process instance, which uses the associated process definition to process the incoming data.
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Using the TIBCO Administrator GUI, the developer can monitor the different processes running on the different machines.
If appropriate, the project can be modified and saved from TIBCO Designer. In that case, you must create a new EAR file and place the new file into the deployment configuration. You must then stop and restart the desired deployment for the changes to take effect.
For more information about creating EAR files and deployment configurations, see TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Administration.