Chapter 1 Installation Overview : Required and Optional Products

Required and Optional Products
Depending on the tasks you wish to perform, you must install one or more third-party products and additional TIBCO products.
Required and Optional Third-Party Products
RDBMS
Backing store is an optional feature. Cache-based object management with a persistent backing store has been tested with Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0 using the following drivers:
J2SE for JMX and JConsole
The Java Management Extensions (JMX) API is a standard for managing and monitoring applications and services. It is required only if you use Decision Manager. It can be useful even if you don’t use Decision Manager. Using JConsole, you can monitor JVMs, and perform operations such as hot-deploying classes from Decision Manager to BusinessEvents applications.
JConsole is a JMX-compliant monitoring tool available in J2SE 5.0 and above. The documentation uses JConsole because it is the standard JMX client, provided with the JDK installation.
It is recommended that you use Java 6 JConsole because of improvements over earlier versions. Its most important enhancement is the definition of descriptors, which can be customized to add relevant user and monitoring information.
Required and Optional TIBCO Products
The next table describes required and optional products and their purpose.
TIBCO Runtime Agent supplies a number of TIBCO and third-party libraries used by TIBCO BusinessEvents and other TIBCO products both at design time and runtime. This includes, for example, TIBCO Rendezvous software.
Note  If you are installing on HP-UX and plan to use the hot deployment feature, you must either download a later version of JRE than the version provided in TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.5.0, or upgrade to TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.5.1 See HP-UX Installations—Configuration for Hot Deployment Feature for more details.
Note  JRE 6 (also known as 1.6.0) is supported only with TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.6.0. With JRE 6, buildear works only with TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.6.0 Hotfix 2.
TIBCO Designer is an easy to use graphical user interface required for design-time configuration of TIBCO BusinessEvents.
TIBCO Administrator is available as a separate installation and does not need to be installed on the same machine as BusinessEvents. You can install TIBCO Administrator before or after installing BusinessEvents.
User Management. Management of authentication, roles and users, that is, connecting roles (groups) and users to access control lists (ACLs). This includes security for deployed applications at runtime.
Resource Management. Monitoring of machines and of all running applications in a TIBCO administration domain. Alerts can be created, for example, to notify an administrator if the number of processes or disk usage exceed a certain number.
Application Management. Uploading of Enterprise Archive (EAR) files, creation, configuration, deployment, and monitoring of applications. This console is also used to start and stop applications.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.4, 5.6
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is a scalable, extensible, and easy to use integration platform that allows you to develop integration projects. BusinessEvents uses ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks mapper features at designtime (in the Function Argument Mapping dialog).
BusinessEvents installer requires prior installation of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks on all machines where you will install BusinessEvents.
Note  If you do not have a fully-licensed version of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, you can download TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks with a development license, for use at design time only. This license does not entitle you to use ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks at runtime.
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 4.0 and higher
Optional. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service allows you to use the Java Messaging Services (JMS) as the message transport.
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is available as a separate installation and can be installed after TIBCO BusinessEvents is installed.