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
JRE
This release of BusinessEvents requires JRE 1.6.0.
J2SE for JMX and JConsole
For use of JMX and JConsole, J2SE 5.0 and above. Version 6.0 is recommended. Optionally used for monitoring and for hot-deploying classes from Decision Manager to BusinessEvents.
The Java Management Extensions (JMX) API is a standard for managing and monitoring applications and services. It is used with TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager add-on.
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.
DBMS for JDBC Backing Store and Database Concept Features
For backing store and database concept features, the following DBMS software is supported (with limitations as noted):
Database driver ojdbc6.jar for use with Sun Java JRE 6 (Oracle Thin Driver only)
Optional TIBCO Products
TIBCO BusinessEvents does not require installation of other TIBCO products. Certain features require use of other TIBCO products. The next table lists products that are typically used with BusinessEvents.
Optional. Provides monitoring capability. Used (if available) by the BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management component to provide machine-level health metrics.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.8
Optional. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is a scalable, extensible, and easy to use integration platform that allows you to develop integration projects. Optionally, you can use ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks in integration projects.
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 4.0 and higher
Optional. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service allows you to use the Java Messaging Services (JMS) as a message transport.