- Easy-to-use GUI. All adapters use TIBCO Designer for configuring and maintaining each adapter. See TIBCO Designer for more information.
- Built-in monitoring and control using TIBCO Hawk. All adapters provide vital business statistics (such as number of messages processed) to the Hawk console and also include Hawk microagents that provide methods to remotely query, set run-time parameters and stop a run-time adapter. See TIBCO Hawk for more information.
- Support for multiple message transports. TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO Enterprise for JMS can be used to transport messages to and from an adapter. See Message Transports for more information.
- Multiple Platform Support. Adapters are usually supported on multiple platforms such as Microsoft Windows, Solaris, and HP-UX. See each adapter’s readme file for details.
- Connection Management. An adapter can detect and replace lost connections to its vendor application. Connection loss is detected upon receipt of a message intended for a particular application. Adapters support both synchronous and asynchronous attempts to replace a lost connection. See Connection Management for more information.
- Multi threading. Most adapters maintain a dynamic pool of threads for performing tasks, which allows the adapter to respond to and process multiple events simultaneously. The adapter can track and communicate event status without affecting other processing. See your adapter user’s guide for more information.
- Error Handling. All adapters use the same error handling mechanism to report run-time adapter errors. Resolutions for run-time errors are documented in the adapter’s user’s guide.
- Multi-lingual Support. Most adapters support multi-byte character sets. See Internationalization for more information.