Wildcards in Topics

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service enables you to use wildcards in topic names in some situations.

You can subscribe to wildcard topics.
If you subscribe to a topic containing a wildcard, you will receive any message published to a matching topic. For example, if you subscribe to foo.* you will receive messages published to a topic named foo.bar.

You can subscribe to a wildcard topic (for example foo.*), whether or not there is a matching topic in the configuration file (for example, foo.*, foo.>, or foo.bar). However, if there is no matching topic name in the configuration file, no messages will be published on that topic.
You cannot publish to wildcard topics.
If foo.bar is not in the configuration file, then you can publish to foo.bar if foo.* or foo.> exists in the configuration file.
On routed topic messages, subscribers must specify a topic that is a direct subset (or equal) of the configured global topic. For more information, see Wildcards.