Guidelines for Choosing an Instance ID

Instance ID is the ID of an adapter configuration. The value of this field comes from the file name you specified when you created the adapter configuration.

Note: The concept of adapter configuration in this book is the same as adapter instance in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win.
The following list describes the guidelines for choosing an instance ID:
  • An instance ID must use alphanumeric characters. You can use the underscore (_), but you cannot use the space character. The entire instance name must be less than 80 characters.
  • An instance ID must be unique with respect to other adapter configurations in the same folder. You can use the same instance ID to name an adapter configuration in a different folder of the same project.

When you create an adapter configuration, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework automatically creates several resources for it. The names of these resources are derived from the ID of the configuration that they belong to. Changing the adapter instance ID results in an automatic regeneration of the resource names. If you manually modify any resource name, that particular name is not automatically regenerated the next time you rename the adapter configuration.