Storing Certificates in a Design-time Library

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Chapter 5 Managing Trusted Certificates : Storing Certificates in a Design-time Library

Storing Certificates in a Design-time Library

This section describes how you can create a design-time library that contains trusted certificates and use the same SSL configuration among multiple projects.

1.

In TIBCO Designer, create a project that contains all the resources that you want to put in the library. It is recommended that you import the certificates you want to export into a folder.

In the following diagram, a certificate has been added to the Certificates folder by clicking Tools > Trusted Certificates > Import into PEM Format. An Identity resource has been dropped in the design panel from the General Resources palette.

Figure 40 Import PEM Format

2.

Drag a LibraryBuilder resource to the design panel. The resource will be configured to reference the folder containing certificates you want to export.

Figure 41 Adding LibrayBuilder to Certificate Folder

3.

Click the Resources tab and select the certificates to export. All resources contained in the referenced folder are included. Click Project > Save and then click Build Library.

Figure 42 .Build Library

4.

Click Edit > Preferences and then click the File Alias tab. Click New to create an alias for the design-time library you just built. (See Creating an Alias for details.) Export your alias by clicking Export and saving the alias to a common directory.

5.

Configure another TIBCO Designer project to use the design-time library. Select the root folder, and then select the Design Time Libraries tab. Click the Add button to select the design-time library location. After saving the project, the library contents become visible.

Figure 43 Select Design Time Library

Clicking File > Save As imports the contents of the library into the project.

Libraries imported by a project are dimmed because library items are read only. You may, however, override a resource by creating a new resource on top of an imported library item. The local version always takes precedence. You can specify the location of the library on your disk and use the correct library regardless of machine or disk layout.

6.

Configure your resources to point to resources contributed by the library.

Figure 44 Configure Resource

If you want to replace the contents contributed by a library with same resource names but different configurations, edit the reference to the library in the Preferences panel to use different library files. The only requirement is that all resources that are referenced and their dependencies must be in the replacement library at the same location in the project.