Preface : Related Documentation

Related Documentation
This section lists documentation resources you may find useful.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Documentation
The following diagram shows the relationships between the main documents in the set.
In addition to the above, the set contains an installation guide, release notes, and a readme file. The complete set is described next.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Installation: Read this manual for instructions on site preparation and installation.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Getting Started: After the product is installed, use this manual to learn the basics of BusinessEvents. This guide provides step-by-step instructions to implement an example project and also explains the main ideas so you gain understanding as well as practical knowledge.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Architect’s Guide: If you are architecting an application using TIBCO BusinessEvents, read this guide for overview and detailed technical information to guide your work.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Developer’s Guide: After the architect has designed the system, use this guide to implement the design in TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Administration: This book explains how to configure, deploy, monitor, and manage a BusinessEvents application and the data it generates.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Cache Configuration Guide: This online reference is available from the HTML documentation interface. It provides configuration details for cache-based object management. Cache-based object management is explained in TIBCO BusinessEvents Administration.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Java API Reference: This online reference is available from the HTML documentation interface. It provides the Javadoc-based documentation for the BusinessEvents API.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Functions Reference: This online reference is available from the HTML documentation interface. It provides a listing of all functions provided with BusinessEvents, showing the same details as the tooltips available in the TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio rule editor interface.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release.
Accessing BusinessEvents Functions Reference Documentation
All functions, including those used in add-ons, are documented in the HTML documentation interface for the BusinessEvents documentation set. The reference documentation is also available as tooltips in TIBCO BusinessEvents Studio.
To use the reference documentation for functions from the file system do the following:
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Browse to BE_HOME/doc/standard/html and click index.htm. The HTML documentation interface appears.
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In the left panel, browse to Online References and in the right panel choose TIBCO BusinessEvents Functions Reference. The reference opens in a new tab.
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TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing
This BusinessEvents add-on is available separately, and includes the BusinessEvents Query Language features and the Pattern Matching Framework.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing Installation: Read this brief manual for installation instructions. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed first.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Query Developer’s Guide: This manual explains how to use the object query language to query various aspects of the running system.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing Pattern Matcher Developer’s Guide: This manual explains how to use the pattern matcher language and engine to correlate event patterns in a running system.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Event Stream Processing Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager
This BusinessEvents add-on is available separately. It incorporates a decision modeling business user interface, and associated runtime.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager Installation: Read this brief manual for installation instructions. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed first.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager User’s Guide: This manual explains how business users can use decision tables and other decision artifacts to create business rules. It also covers configuration and administration of Rules Management Server, which is used for authentication, authorization, and approval processes.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Decision Manager Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling
This BusinessEvents add-on is available separately. It contains state models and database concept features.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling Installation: Read this brief manual for installation instructions. A compatible version of TIBCO BusinessEvents must be installed first.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling Developer’s Guide: This manual explains data modeling add-on features for BusinessEvents. The database concepts feature enables you to model BusinessEvents concepts on Database tables. The state modeler feature enables you to create state machines.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Data Modeling Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Views
This BusinessEvents add-on is available separately. It includes graphical dashboard components for run-time event monitoring.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Installation: Read this manual for instructions on site preparation and installation.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Developer’s Guide: This guide explains how to use BusinessEvents TIBCO BusinessEvents Views to create meaningful metrics that are presented to business users in real-time for proactive decision making.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide: This book explains how to monitor metrics in BusinessEvents TIBCO BusinessEvents Views and how to represent the business processes graphically.
TIBCO BusinessEvents Views Release Notes: Read the release notes for a list of new and changed features. This document also contains lists of known issues and closed issues for this release.
Other TIBCO Product Documentation
You may find it useful to refer to the documentation for the following TIBCO products: