Channel Types

One project can have multiple channels of different types with multiple destinations.

You can either create an custom channel using the provided custom channel API or choose from the following types of channels:

TIBCO Rendezvous channels
They connect TIBCO BusinessEvents to TIBCO Rendezvous sources and sinks.
Local channels
They connect co-located agents at runtime.
JMS channels
They connect TIBCO BusinessEvents to TIBCO Enterprise Message Service provider sources and sinks.
Note: Each JMS Input Destination Runs a Session. Every JMS destination that is configured to be an input destination runs in its own JMS Session. This provides good throughput on queues and topics for processing, and less connections.
HTTP channels, including SOAP support
An HTTP channel acts as an HTTP server at runtime. This enables TIBCO BusinessEvents to serve requests from clients, and to act as a client of other servers. Support for SOAP protocol is provided by these features (using SOAP over HTTP):
  • A specialized event type with a payload is configured as a skeleton SOAP message.
  • A set of functions for extracting information from SOAP request messages and constructing response messages.
  • A utility that constructs project resources based on the SOAP service’s WSDL file (document style WSDLs with literal encoding are supported).
Hawk channels
They connect TIBCO BusinessEvents to TIBCO Hawk domain to enable it to receive events from the Hawk monitor and transform them into events. A set of catalog functions are also provided which are used to control the Hawk microagents through Hawk APIs.
StreamBase channels
Using the StreamBase Channel a BusinessEvents application (StreamBase client) can connect to a StreamBase server. The BusinessEvents application can subscribe to StreamBase streams to receive (dequeue) messages from the StreamBase server and send (enqueue) messages to the StreamBase server.
Kafka Channel
To send and receive messages from a Kafka broker TIBCO BusinessEvents uses Kafka channel. The Kafka channel converts the incoming Kafka messages to the BusinessEvents events and output BusinessEvents events to outgoing Kafka messages.
ActiveSpaces channels
They connect TIBCO BusinessEvents to TIBCO ActiveSpaces metaspace to enable it to monitor the activities in the metaspace, receive events from TIBCO ActiveSpaces and convert them into events in TIBCO BusinessEvents. A set of catalog functions are provided to control the type of the TIBCO ActiveSpaces events.
TCP channels
They connect to data sources not otherwise available through channels, using a catalog of functions.
FTL Channels
TIBCO FTL® messaging product is used for sending messages from one point to another. TIBCO BusinessEvents can send and receive events using TIBCO FTL as the medium. Using the FTL channel, TIBCO BusinessEvents can receive incoming TIBCO FTL messages and send TIBCO FTL messages across TIBCO BusinessEvents. You can use catalog functions in BusinessEvents to communicate with FTL.

See TIBCO BusinessEvents Developer's Guide for more information on how to create a custom channel for your project.