Chapter 1 Overview : Summary of Tasks

Summary of Tasks
Having read the earlier sections in this overview, you should now have a general idea about when to use CEP, what’s in a BusinessEvents project, and how it works at runtime. You will gain a deeper and more detailed understanding as you work with the product over time. This section concludes the overview with a brief summary of tasks with pointers to the relevant chapters in this guide that provide more detailed concepts, procedures, and reference materials.
It is strongly recommended that you complete the tutorials in TIBCO BusinessEvents Getting Started before beginning to work on your production projects. The tutorials give you a hands-on experience of building, deploying, and running a simple project.
Design Tasks
Design the Ontology
See the following chapters for background information and instructions about building your project’s ontology:
Chapter 2, Working With Channels and Destinations
Chapter 3, Working With Simple Events
Chapter 4, Working With Time Events
Chapter 5, Working With Advisory Events
Chapter 6, Working With Concepts
Chapter 7, Working With Database Concepts
Chapter 8, Working With Scorecards
Build Rules
See Chapter 9, Working With Rules and Functions, for details about building rules and rule functions.
Design State Machines (Enterprise Suite Only)
See chapter Chapter 10, Working With The State Modeler for details about using the state modeler to define transitions and states for concepts.
Integrate with TIBCO ActiveMatrx BusinessWorks (Optional)
If you have a production license for ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, you can use the integration features to take advantage of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks features. See the following chapters:
Chapter 11, Out-of-Process ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Integration
Chapter 12, In-Process ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Integration
Integrate with Decision Manager (Optional)
Virtual rule functions whose signatures are defined in TIBCO Designer are implemented in Decision Manager using decision tables, and the classes are then loaded into BusinessEvents engines at startup or are hot deployed to a running system. See TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager for details.
Test the Design
As you design your project, you can analyze and test it. Three tools are provided for this purpose: Rule Analyzer, Rule Debugger and Performance Profiler. They are documented in the following chapters:
Appendix D, BusinessEvents Tools Overview
Appendix E, Working With Rule Analyzer
Appendix F, Working With Rule Debugger
Appendix G, BusinessEvents Tools Reference
Chapter 13, BusinessEvents Performance Profiler
Manage BusinessEvents Objects
Runtime activities can generate an enormous amount of object instance data. Object management refers to various ways that BusinessEvents can manage the data. Fault tolerance is a related topic. See the following chapters for details:
Chapter 14, Understanding Object Management and Fault Tolerance through Chapter 25, Project Configuration for Backing Store
Build Cache Queries (Enterprise Suite Only)
The query language features enable you to query cache data and use the results externally or in BusinessEvents rules. See TIBCO BusinessEvents Language Reference for details.
Deployment and Runtime Tasks
After your project design is implemented and tested, you will deploy and manage the runtime system. See the following chapters for details:
Chapter 26, Deploytime Configuration
Chapter 27, Configuring Logging Settings
Chapter 28, Deploying a TIBCO BusinessEvents Project
Chapter 29, Configuring and Using Hot Deployment