Designtime Environment An Enterprise Archive Resource (EAR) is a deployment resource for TIBCO Adapters and TIBCO BusinessWorks. It is created using TIBCO Designer and is assembled from one or more TIBCO Adapter archives (AAR). Global and configuration specific variables set in the TIBCO Designer project are automatically added to the EAR file when the EAR is built. TIBCO Adapter SDK properties are not visible at the TIBCO Designer project level, but are properties provided by the Adapter's deployment descriptor when the TIBCO Adapter archive is built during the EAR creation process. These properties are specific to TIBCO Adapters and are responsible for controlling the runtime behavior of the TIBCO Adapter. Hawk monitoring should be enabled in the TIBCO Adapter project at design time.