TIBCO Designer—Designtime ActivitiesMany TIBCO products use TIBCO Designer as their design-time interface. TIBCO Designer hosts palettes for many different purposes. It also organizes project resources and makes the organization visible in graphical and folder-based ways. At design time, BusinessEvents makes use of some resources available in TIBCO ActiveMatrx BusinessWorks, such as the XML mapper. (BusinessEvents provides a development license for ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks. For runtime use, a full license is required.)The BusinessEvents Workbench palette integrates with TIBCO Designer and is used at design time. Design time activities performed using the resources in this palette include building an ontology—a set of concepts, scorecards and events that represent the objects and activities in your business—and building rules that are triggered when instances of ontology objects that fulfill certain criteria arrive in events. The output of the design-time activities is an enterprise archive (EAR) file, ready to deploy (or configure for deployment as needed).If you are familiar with TIBCO Designer, you will know how to work with resources. If not, see tutorials in TIBCO BusinessEvents Getting Started to learn more.In addition, BusinessEvents provides a palette of activities for use with ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks integrations (see Connecting to TIBCO ActiveMatrx BusinessWorks (Optional) below).The Enterprise Suite of TIBCO BusinessEvents includes a state machine component. It allows you to model states of ontology concept instances and use those states in rules. See Chapter 10, Working With The State Modeler.TIBCO BusinessEvents communicates with TIBCO ActiveMatrx BusinessWorks through a palette of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Activities. Two methods of integration with ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks are available: in process and out of process.See Chapter 11, Out-of-Process ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Integration and Chapter 12, In-Process ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Integration.TIBCO Administrator—Deploy and Runtime ActivitiesTIBCO Administrator provides administrative access to BusinessEvents servers that are deployed to a TIBCO Administrator administration domain. You can use TIBCO Administrator to perform deploytime configuration, deploy EAR files, and manage the deployed servers.You can also perform many of these tasks at the command line, for deployments that are not in a TIBCO Administrator domain.At runtime, one or more nodes running one or more BusinessEvents inference agents process the incoming events using a Rete network as the inferencing engine, and a set of rules that are triggered by conditions in incoming events.See Runtime Architecture and Flow for more details.When Cache object management is used, inference agents, query agents and cache server nodes co-operate to provide efficient processing. Load balancing, and fault tolerance of data and engine processes is available. See Chapter 14, Understanding Object Management and Fault Tolerance for an introduction to these topics.Decision Manager, and its rules management server enable business users to build rules using decision tables and deploy them to a production system.See TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager for more details.
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