What is TIBCO Designer? TIBCO Designer is a project-building user interface used by many TIBCO products, including BusinessEvents. A basic guide to the use of TIBCO Designer is provided in
Appendix A, Getting Started With TIBCO Designer.
How should I organize project folders? Use folders to organize your project components in any way you like. Example projects are kept simple and use folder names such as Concepts, Events, Rules. More complex projects might use a deeper folder hierarchy with names that relate to the purpose or contents of the folders.
What are palettes? TIBCO Designer organizes resources used to build a project into palettes. Palettes are provided for each product you install. Because ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is provided with BusinessEvents for use in development (but not production), you see all the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks palettes, as well as the BusinessEvents ones.
How do I choose a palette resource? You can choose a resource by dragging its icon from the palette panel to the design panel, or you can right-click and choose the resource from menus. The palettes and resources you see depend on the context. Only those that present valid choices for your current context are shown.
Your display looks similar to this (you may be using a different number of panels). Names of the panels shown below are used throughout documentation. BusinessEvents Workbench palette has been selected:
You have created a new empty project in TIBCO Designer. The process is the same for all TIBCO products that use the TIBCO Designer interface. Use of a common project-building tool shortens your learning curve and enables you to integrate different TIBCO products to create useful applications.
Next you will begin to define your BusinessEvents project by building a channel for information to enter the system, and a destination for the system to listen to.
The order in which you build up the project is not important. For example, you might decide that first you want to define all the objects (ontology) for the project.