Software Requirements

The following table lists the required and optional software products.

Software Requirements
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 TIBCO Rendezvous is required if you wish to use the Rendezvous discovery transport (using a discovery URL that begins with tibrv:). Rendezvous must be installed on each machine where you install ActiveSpaces.

If you will only make use of the embedded PGM discovery transport (using a discovery URL that begins with tibpgm:), TIBCO Rendezvous is not required.

TIBCO ActiveSpaces Enterprise Edition includes limited license support for Rendezvous. The license is limited to use for local area communication (RVD). Separate purchase of TIBCO Rendezvous software is required for routing between multiple subnets. The TIBCO Rendezvous component included with ActiveSpaces should only be used with ActiveSpaces.

For more information about discovery transport in ActiveSpaces, see the TIBCO ActiveSpaces Developer’s Guide.

Third-party Software

See the readme file for the supported versions.

Java JDK or JRE Installation of the Java JDK or JRE, version 1.7.0_51 or above, on a machine running ActiveSpaces enhances the functionality of ActiveSpaces as follows:
  • The JDK allows use of the Java API and Administration Command Line Interface (Admin CLI).
  • The JRE alone will allow use of the Java Admin CLI (deprecated) and TIBCO Administrator, but not the Java API.

    The JDK or JRE is not required on machines where the Java API or Java Admin CLI will not be used.

DBMS Software If you are implementing shared all persistence on the device where ActiveSpaces is installed, you must install a database management system of your choice and integrate it with the ActiveSpaces application that you develop.
Web Browsers Required to run the TIBCO ActiveSpaces Monitoring and Management (ASMM) GUI.
Apache Ant Required to compile the sample Java code.
C compiler Required to compile the sample C code.
ActiveSpaces supports the following compilers:
Solaris, SPARC and X86
 Sun Studio 12
IBM
 XL C, 11.01.0000.0010
HP
 aCC, HP C/aC++, B3910B A.06.25
Linux/OS X
  Latest GCC / GCC version 4.1.2 20070115
Windows
 cl / VS 12

For the Windows platform, TIBCO ActiveSpaces provides a Makefile that works with Microsoft Visual C++.

Related concepts