Adapter Components and Compatible Software


You can install different adapter components on different machines. For example, you can run the runtime adapter on one machine and install the design-time components on another machine. This allows you to configure an adapter on one machine and run it on another.

Adapter Components

Table 1 describes the adapter components on the adapter installation package.

Table 1 TIBCO Adapter components
Component
 
Run-time adapter
This process does the actual work of passing and converting data. Parameters of data exchanges are stored in projects created using the adapter palette.
Adapter palette
Adapter-specific GUI that is loaded in TIBCO Designer (see next section for details) at configuration time.

Required and Optional TIBCO Products

Depending on the tasks you wish to perform, you must install one or more other TIBCO products. The next table describes required and optional products and their purpose.

Table 2 Required and Optional TIBCO Products
Component
Purpose
TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.2.1
Required. TIBCO Runtime Agent supplies a number of TIBCO and third-party libraries used by the adapter and other TIBCO products both at design-time and runtime. This includes, for example, TIBCO Rendezvous and TIBCO Designer software.
You must install TIBCO Runtime Agent on each machine that hosts an adapter. TIBCO Runtime Agent must be installed before you install the adapter.
TIBCO Designer 5.2.0
Required. TIBCO Designer is an easy to use graphical user interface for design-time configuration of TIBCO adapters.
TIBCO Designer is installed as part of the TIBCO Runtime Agent installation.
TIBCO Administrator 5.2.1
Required. TIBCO Administrator is available in two editions, Repository Edition and Enterprise Edition. You must install either edition. The Repository Edition does not include the Application Management module. Enterprise Edition is required if you are using the adapter with TIBCO BusinessWorks. Administrator includes the following modules:
  • User Management. Management of authentication, roles and users, that is, connecting roles (groups) and users to access control lists (ACLs). This includes security for server-based projects at design-time and for deployed applications at runtime.
  • Resource Management. Monitoring of machines and of all running applications in a TIBCO administration domain. Alerts can be created, for example, to notify an administrator if the number of processes or disk usage exceed a certain number.
  • Application Management. Uploading of Enterprise Archive (EAR) files, creation, configuration, deployment, and monitoring of applications. This console is also used to start and stop applications.
TIBCO Administrator is available as a separate installation and can be installed after installing the adapter.
TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.2.1
Optional. TIBCO BusinessWorks is a scalable, extensible, and easy to use integration platform that allows you to develop integration projects. TIBCO Adapters are typically part of integration projects created using BusinessWorks.
TIBCO BusinessWorks is available as a separate installation and can be installed after installing the adapter.
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 4.2
Optional. TIBCO Enterprise for JMS allows you to use the Java Messaging Services (JMS) as the message transport for your adapter.
TIBCO Enterprise for JMS is available as a separate installation and can be installed after the adapter is installed.
TIBCO Hawk 4.5.1
Optional. TIBCO Hawk allows you to use the adapter’s built-in Hawk microagents to monitor and manage the adapter.
TIBCO Hawk is available as a separate installation and can be installed after the adapter is installed.


TIBCO Adapter™ for COM User’s Guide
Software Release 5.3, September 2005
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