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 Statistica Integration

You can now augment the rule processing capabilities of TIBCO BusinessEvents by integrating it with TIBCO Statistica. You can utilize the machine learning models that are deployed on TIBCO Statistica Live Score Server by invoking the TIBCO Statistica Live Score web service from the BusinessEvents code.

See TIBCO Statistica Integration.

Consul Global Variable Support

The TIBCO BusinessEvents application deployed on a cloud platform can use global variables from the key-value store in Consul.

See Setting Up the Application to Use Global Variables from Consul.

Apache Kafka Streams Channel

You can now process Kafka Streams by using the Kafka Streams channel.

See Kafka and the Kafka Streams Channel.

TIBCO BusinessEvents® WebStudio Enhancements

WebStudio has now added support for in the following languages:
  • Arabic (right to left)
  • Korean

See Changing Language of the TIBCO BusinessEvents WebStudio.

TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent Localization

TIBCO BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent error message files for supported languages are now provided with TIBCO BusinessEvents installation. You no longer need to download separate language pack for these.

See Localizing BusinessEvents Enterprise Administrator Agent Messages.

Strong Cipher Support

Updated the supported SSL Server: Ciphers list in the HTTP channel to list only strong or medium strength ciphers.

See HTTP Channel Advanced Configuration Settings

OpenJDK Support

You can now externally configure OpenJDK with TIBCO BusinessEvents.

See Using OpenJDK with TIBCO BusinessEvents.

TIBCO BusinessEvents WebStudio Classic User Interface

TIBCO BusinessEvents WebStudio with classic interface is now no longer available in TIBCO BusinessEvents. Documentation related to the classic user interface is also removed from the TIBCO BusinessEvents WebStudio User's Guide.

TIBCO BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management

TIBCO BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management is now no longer available in TIBCO BusinessEvents. Documentation related to the TIBCO BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management is also removed from the TIBCO BusinessEvents documentation.

Configuration Properties

Added the global variable support for the following Log Configuration settings in the Collections tab of CDD:
  • Max Number
  • Max Size

See CDD Collections Tab Log Configurations Settings Reference.

Catalog Functions

The following new functions have been added:

  • SOAP.signEnvelope - To sign the SOAP envelope.
  • Engine.invokeRuleFunctionInSession - To execute a rule function in the current rule session.
  • Metaspace.MemberDef.getProcessName and Metaspace.MemberDef.setProcessName - To retrieve and set the value of the MemberDef processName property.

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