Product Overview
TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter for Files for Unix/Win (TIBCO Business Studio™) provides a design-time environment to configure adapter configurations, Publication Service, Subscription Service, and schemas in TIBCO Business Studio™.
The following figure shows how TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win (TIBCO Business Studio) works with other products.
- TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™
- TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is an integration product suite for enterprise, web, and mobile applications. You can create services and integrate applications using a visual, model-driven development environment, and then deploy them in the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks run time.
- TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter Framework
- TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework works as a bridge between TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win (TIBCO Business Studio) and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.x. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework provides the development environment for configuring supported TIBCO adapters in TIBCO Business Studio and working with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6 applications and processes. It also provides the following components:
- TIBCO Business Studio
- TIBCO Business Studio is the Eclipse graphical user interface (GUI) used by TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win (TIBCO Business Studio) to design adapter configurations and business processes, run processes and generate deployable artifacts in the form of archive files.
- TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Adapter for Files for Unix/Win
- TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win is the runtime component of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win (TIBCO Business Studio). Therefore TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win (TIBCO Business Studio) has all the runtime features of TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win.
As shown in the figure, you can configure the adapter through TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework in TIBCO Business Studio. You can also use TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks to develop a business process so that the adapter can be integrated into a data flow.
After installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework, the Adapter palette is available for TIBCO adapters. The Adapter palette contains activities that communicate 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 Files for Unix/Win. When you run adapter configurations, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win (TIBCO Business Studio) uses the runtime properties in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter for Files for Unix/Win.