What's New

The What's New topic lists new and revised features of TIBCO BusinessEvents® version 5.6 compared to the previous version with reference to documentation.

TIBCO BusinessEvents Cloud Deployment Guide

A new TIBCO BusinessEvents Cloud Deployment Guide is introduced to provide information about deployment of TIBCO BusinessEvents application, monitoring your application, and running WebStudio on your cloud platform. The information about containerizing TIBCO BusinessEvents applications by using Docker is moved from the TIBCO BusinessEvents Administration guide to TIBCO BusinessEvents Cloud Deployment Guide, and also updated based on new scripts.

See TIBCO BusinessEvents® Cloud Deployment Guide.

Channel Enhancements

MQTT channel
New channel to communicate with IoT devices. See MQTT Channel.
Amazon Kinesis channel
New channel to process big data in real time. See Kinesis Channel.
ActiveSpaces 3.x channel
New channel to connect to version 3.x or 4.x of TIBCO ActiveSpaces. See ActiveSpaces 3.x Channel.
FTL channel
In the new Durable Name field, you can specify a durable subscription name in the FTL channel destination. See Configuration for FTL Destinations.
JMS channel
  • Supports shared subscription name for consumers
  • Supports JSON payload
See JMS Destinations Configuration Properties .
HTTP channel
  • WebSocket support for the HTTP channel.
  • New SSL Server: Use Cipher Order field to use the server cipher order for SSL handshake in the HTTP channel.
See HTTP Destinations Configuration Properties .

TIBCO BusinessEvents® WebStudio User Interface Enhancements

TIBCO BusinessEvents WebStudio user interface has been optimized to be more user-friendly and to have modern look.
  • The Dashboard tab has been updated to provide a better overall view of your WebStudio activities and RMS projects.
  • The Management tab has been updated to make the role assignment task more intuitive.
  • The new Import Project option enables you to import a TIBCO BusinessEvents project to RMS.
  • WebStudio new UI is available in following languages:
    • German
    • French
    • Italian
    • Chinese
  • You can use either an HTML TextBox or HTML TextArea type input field for the String data type in the Business Rule HTML editor.
  • You can export multiple artifacts (decision tables and business rules) from WebStudio.

See WebStudio New User Interface.

Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) Integration

You can now use the data mining models in TIBCO BusinessEvents to perform real-time predictive analysis. TIBCO BusinessEvents also bundles an example AuditPMML to demonstrate the PMML integration. TIBCO BusinessEvents also provides new catalog functions for working with PMML.

See Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) Integration.

TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent

Configuration Properties

The following new properties are added:
  • be.engine.channel.<DestinationURI>.deliverydelay - To set delayed delivery time for all messages in JMS channel destination.
  • be.engine.cluster.datagrid.db.retrycount and be.engine.cluster.datagrid.db.sleeptime - To configure retry count and retry interval for the database connection.
  • be.channel.kafka.skip.attributes - To skip TIBCO BusinessEvents attributes from the output JSON when using the KafkaJsonSerializer in the Kafka channel
  • be.engine.cluster.as.browser.join - To enable the space join on browse calls during processing
  • be.engine.cluster.as.extid.index - To add index for extId.
  • be.engine.channel.http.hostname.validation.enable - To enable or disable hostname validation in the HTTP channel
See TIBCO BusinessEvents® Configuration Guide.

Cloud Deployment Guide

The following new functions have been added:

  • Event.validatePayload - To validate event payload
  • Event.serializeToJSON - To convert events to JSON string
  • Event.serializeToXML - To convert events to XML string
  • DateTime.parseStringWithTimeZone - To convert input String to the DateTime data type in the specified time zone
  • Log.getLevel - To retrieve the logging level
  • New TIBCO ActiveSpaces 3.x catalog functions:
    • Store.ConnectionInfo.AS.setSecondaryStoreUrl
    • Store.ConnectionInfo.setConnectionPoolSize
    • Store.ConnectionInfo.setName
    • Store.Item.getExpiration
    • Store.Item.setTTL
    • Store.Metadata.getName
    • Store.QueryOptions.setReuse
    • Store.executeUpdate
    • Store.deleteAll
    • Store.getAll
    • Store.putAll
    • Store.closeQuery
  • New PMML related functions under Analytics.PMML

For more information about catalog functions, see TIBCO BusinessEvents Functions Reference.