ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Integration : Overview of Integration with ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks

Overview of Integration with ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks
If TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks used in your environment, you can take advantage of integration components provided by BusinessEvents. Integration between BusinessEvents and ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks enables each product to take advantage of the strengths of the other. For example, ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks can use BusinessEvents as a light-weight rules engine, and BusinessEvents can use transports available in ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.
This guide assumes you know how to work with ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks processes. See TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design Guide if you need detailed guidance.
Integration components include an ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks plug-in, which provides a palette of BusinessEvents activities, and various BusinessEvents functions. See Integration Components for details. You can use these components to do the following:
This chapter explains how to configure the environment and use these features.
BusinessEvents requires JRE 6. You must also use JRE 6 with ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks in order to integrate with BusinessEvents.
The Container and the Contained Engine
You can design integration projects in different ways. You can start an ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks engine inside a BusinessEvents container, or you can start a BusinessEvents engine inside a ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks container — or you can do both.
In all cases, BusinessEvents and ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks must be deployed on the same machine, and both must reference the same CDD file and EAR file (as shown in the figure above.
Which engine runs as the container affects project design and runtime behavior, as explained in Design Considerations.