ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Prerequisites

The following products are prerequisites for ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and must be installed prior to installing ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks:

TIBCO Runtime Agent™ 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.
TIBCO Designer is a graphical user interface (GUI) that is installed as part of TRA. TIBCO Designer provides and easy-to-use design-time environment that supports adapter configuration, process design, and testing of the integration project.
TIBCO Administrator supports deployment, security administration, and monitoring and management of processes and machines. TIBCO Administrator consists of the TIBCO Administration Server and the web browser based TIBCO Administrator GUI.

Once the prerequisite products are installed, you may install the following components of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks:

The ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks engine runs the business processes in test mode and at run-time.
The ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks design-time plug-in provides the palettes and resources to TIBCO Designer for creating business processes. ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks was designed using a plug-in architecture. There are special-use plug-ins that you can procure separately, such as the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks EJB Plug-in that allows you to work with Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs).
The ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks engine runs the business processes in test mode and at run-time.

The illustration below shows how the products work together.

Figure 8: ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks development