- A run-time adapter is the adapter component that is used in a production system to handle communication between a vendor application and TIBCO infrastructure.
- A design-time adapter is an adapter component that is used at configuration time to introspect the vendor application data schemas and configure the adapter. Not all adapters use design-time adapters. Many adapters have the same functionality built into their palettes.
- A palette is an adapter component that contains the screens used to gather input at design-time when configuring an adapter with a service.
- A project is a collection of all configured adapter resources. A project contains configuration information for one or more adapter instances. A local project is typically used at design-time for testing adapter instances. For production, a project is typically managed by an administration server, which is provided by the TIBCO Admininstrator™ product.