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.
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
- See JMS Destinations Configuration Properties .
- HTTP channel
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- 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.
TIBCO BusinessEvents® WebStudio User Interface Enhancements
- 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:
- 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.
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.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent
- The checkstatus application management command is added to get status details of an application or a machine. See TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent Commands Reference.
- The savedeploymentvariables configuration management command is added to check status of a machine or an application. See TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent Commands Reference.
- Support for adding TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent as a Windows service. See Installing TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent as Windows Service.
Configuration Properties
- 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
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:
- New PMML related functions under Analytics.PMML
For more information about catalog functions, see TIBCO BusinessEvents Functions Reference.