Product Overview

TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter for Database (TIBCO Business Studio™) provides a design-time environment to configure adapter configurations, Publication Service, Subscription Service, Request-Response Service, and schemas in TIBCO Business Studio.

The following figure shows how TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database (TIBCO Business Studio) works with other TIBCO products:

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™: TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks supports your integration project throughout the project life cycle. It includes a common graphical user interface for configuration, process design, and deployment.

TIBCO Business Studio: TIBCO Business Studio is the Eclipse graphical user interface (GUI) used by TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks. TIBCO Business Studio can integrate TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter Framework and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database (TIBCO Business Studio) to design adapter configurations and business processes, verfiy adapter and processes and generate deployable artifacts in the form of archive files.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework provides a visual, model-driven development environment for configuring supported TIBCO adapters in TIBCO Business Studio, and integrating them with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6 applications and processes. It also provides administration capabilities for deploying the TIBCO adapters developed in TIBCO Business Studio to runtime environments.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework works as a bridge between TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database (TIBCO Business Studio) and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.

The following installation components are available for TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework:

Component	Description
Design	This component includes all the Eclipse Graphical User Interface(GUI) for TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework. You can configure your own adapter configurations and business processes in TIBCO Business Studio with the Eclipse GUI.
Runtime	This component includes Adapter Administration, which is used to deploy and run Enterprise Archive (EAR) files of adapter projects by using a command line. Note: You can install this component independently without installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.x.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter for Database: TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database is a bidirectional gateway between databases and applications configured for the TIBCO environment. The adapter supports publication, subscription, and request-response interactions.

As shown in the preceding figure, you can configure the adapter through TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework in TIBCO Business Studio and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database (TIBCO Business Studio). You can also use TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks to develop a business process.

After TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework is installed, the Adapter palette is available for TIBCO adapters. The Adapter palette contains activities for communicating with configured TIBCO Adapter services. You can add activities and design business processes in TIBCO Business Studio. The configurations of all the features are similar to TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database. When you run adapter configurations, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database (TIBCO Business Studio) calls for the runtime properties in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Database.