Plug-In Overview
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a distributed messaging queue service from Amazon. Messages are composed of text and optional attributes, all of which are supported by the plug-in. After the messages are sent, they can be received either in batches or one at a time.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a notification service used for managing and coordinating the delivery of messages to the subscribing endpoints and clients.
The Plug-in integrates into TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™.
It provides the following features:
You can use the Amazon connection shared resource to connect to the Amazon SQS or SNS instance. The shared resource is used by the Amazon SQS and SNS activities.
By using SQS activities, you can create and delete a queue, send messages to a queue, and receive messages from a queue.
By using SNS activities, you can create and destroy topics, publish messages on the topics.
Auto and manual delete of messages after they are received
Plug-in Architecture
The following figure describes the relationship between Amazon SQS or SNS Instance, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Amazon SQS and SNS, and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.
The following list describes each item in the Plug-in Architecture figure and the relationship between them:
- Amazon SQS or SNS instance with which ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for Amazon SQS and SNS communicates.
- ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for Amazon SQS and SNS plugs into ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and connects to Amazon SQS or SNS instance.
- ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is easy-to-use integration product suite for enterprise applications.
- TIBCO Business Studio is the graphical user interface (GUI) used by ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks and the plug-in, to design business processes, and the process engine is used to execute them.
- TIBCO® Enterprise Administrator provides a centralized administrative interface to manage and monitor the plug-in applications deployed in an enterprise application.