Deploy-time and Runtime Overview
A TIBCO BusinessEvents design-time project is deployed as a TIBCO BusinessEvents application. You can either have a unclustered or clustered deployment.
When the cluster management mode set to Clustered, the deployment can span across multiple host servers.
You can use any of these deployment methods. It is recommended that you use only one method for each cluster you are deploying:
- At the command-line. You specify the CDD file to use and the processing unit within that CDD file.
- Using TIBCO Administrator. If you have been using this utility in your environment, you can continue to do so. (See in Hot Deployment in TIBCO BusinessEvents Administration.)
All of the deployment methods use two resources: an EAR file and a cluster deployment descriptor, which is an XML file.
The Enterprise Archive Resource (EAR) is the deployable version of a TIBCO BusinessEvents application. The EAR file contains runtime version of the project ontology, the channel definitions, the state machines, and so on. When you are finished designing the project in TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio, you simply choose a menu option to build the EAR.