The behavior of an TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme business solution can be changed by activating different configurations. Many aspects of a solution are configurable, from minor scheduled changes to wholesale redefinition of business logic. Distribution, security policy, channel (connectivity) definitions, and many other features of the solution are defined using the configuration service.

There are many different configuration elements in a solution; each one can have several different versions loaded but only one active version. Figure Figure 2.8, “Loading a new configuration” shows how you might load a new version 2.1 of some configuration xyz, while leaving the current version 1.2 as the active version.

Figure 2.8. Loading a new configuration

The TIBCO BusinessEvents® Extreme configuration service loads new configurations from files. This file identifies both the name of the configuration element and the version. There can be any number of different versions loaded for a particular element; any of these can be activated by a management command. Figure Figure 2.9, “Changing the active configuration” depicts the activation of version 2.0 of configuration xyz.

Figure 2.9. Changing the active configuration