Installation Overview : Required and Optional Products

Required and Optional Products
Depending on the tasks you wish to perform, the following third-party products and additional TIBCO products listed in this section can be used with BusinessEvents. Only the JRE is a basic requirement.
Upgrade all add-on products  When you upgrade TIBCO BusinessEvents, you must also upgrade all add-on products in use to the same version. Add-ons must be at the same version as BusinessEvents in order to work correctly.
Required and Optional Third-Party Products
JRE (Required for TIBCO BusinessEvents 4.x)
The 4.0 release of BusinessEvents requires JRE 1.6.0.
DBMS for JDBC Backing Store
For backing store, the following DBMS software is supported (with limitations as noted):
If you are using the Oracle Types-based backing store, you must use the ojdbc6.jar from Oracle 11g Release 1, as there are some issues with the jar from Release 2.
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 and the supported versions.
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.
Optional. Provides monitoring capability. Used (if available) by the BusinessEvents Monitoring and Management component to provide machine-level health metrics.
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.