What's New

The What's New topic lists new and revised features of TIBCO BusinessEvents® version 5.5 compared to the previous version with reference to documentation.

Kubernetes Support

TIBCO BusinessEvents and rule management server (RMS) applications can now be deployed on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) based Kubernetes cluster.

For more information about running TIBCO BusinessEvents and RMS applications in Kubernetes, see Running TIBCO BusinessEvents® on AWS Based Kubernetes Cluster and Running RMS Applications in Kubernetes.

TIBCO ActiveSpaces 3.x Catalog Functions

New catalog functions are available for interaction with an external TIBCO ActiveSpaces 3.x cluster.

For more information about TIBCO BusinessEvents and TIBCO ActiveSpaces 3.x integration, see TIBCO BusinessEvents and TIBCO ActiveSpaces 3.x Integration.

TIBCO BusinessEvents® WebStudio New User Interface

TIBCO BusinessEvents WebStudio has a new intuitive user interface (UI). The new UI retains all the old functionalities such as operations for decision tables, business rules, and domain models. In addition, it also provides new functionalities, such as,
  • Viewing or downloading an audit report for all the actions performed on an artifact by users.
  • Hot deploying the same change to different environments at different time.
  • Configuring hot deployment settings for a project from the WebStudio without restarting RMS.

For information about WebStudio new UI, see WebStudio New User Interface.

FTL Channel

TIBCO BusinessEvents now provides a new channel to communicate with TIBCO FTL. TIBCO BusinessEvents can now send and receive events using TIBCO FTL as transport. You can also use catalog functions in TIBCO BusinessEvents to communicate with TIBCO FTL. The FTL channel also supports secure communication using SSL.

For more information about FTL channel, see FTL Channel.

Kafka Channel

  • You can now configure SASL and SSL based secured communication with Kafka. For details about security protocols, see Configuration for Kafka Channel .
  • You can now use Include Event Type field to specify when to suppress the original behavior of including ns and nm fields during serialization and deserialization.
  • The existing serializer KafkaStringPayloadSerializer is now replaced with KafkaXmlSerializer to also include event properties for serialization and deserialization. A Kafka JSON message serializer KafkaJsonSerializer is added. For details about Kafka channel serializers, see Kafka Channel.

Rule Management Server (RMS)

  • You can now hot deploy artifacts for in-memory projects. Added a new property <project name>.<environment name>.ws.jmx.inMemory to specify if the project is a in-memory project. For more information about the property <project name>.<environment name>.ws.jmx.inMemory, see Hot Deployment Property Group
  • TIBCO BusinessEvents now ships a reference implementation code and API for custom source control repository. For details about integrating your repository with RMS, see Integrating Custom Repository with RMS.

Maven Integration

Additional Maven phases for hot deployment and Docker-related commands have been added.

For information about TIBCO BusinessEvents Maven plug-in phases, see BusinessEvents Maven Plug-in Phases.

Docker

TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administration Agent

  • You can now auto-detect TIBCO BusinessEvents installations for individual machines. For more details about auto-detecting TIBCO BusinessEvents installations, see Auto-detecting BusinessEvents Installations on Host Machines.
  • You can now create duplicate deployment profiles that you can reuse in different environments. For more details about duplicate deployment profiles, see Creating a Duplicate Deployment Profile.
  • You can now use existing global variables, TIBCO BusinessEvents properties, and system properties while creating a deployment profile. For details about creating a deployment profile, see Adding an Application Deployment Profile.
  • Added new operations in TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administration Agent CLI to:
    • Upload custom JAR file
    • Discover BusinessEvents installations
    • Delete machine
    • Download BusinessEvents and ActiveSpaces logs (from default as well as custom location)
    • Download thread-dumps
    • Export and import application deployments
    • Hot deploy decision tables and business rules

For more details about TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administration Agent CLI commands, see TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent Commands Reference.

Configuration Properties

The studio-tools Utility

The studio-tools utility has a new parameter -jc for the buildEar operation to include the specified Java classpath. For more details about the buildEar operation, see Building an EAR File at the Command Line.