From Concepts to Usage

Understanding the concepts in this booklet is the first step to using TIBCO FTL software effectively. The next step depends on your role as either a programmer or an administrator.

As we noted at the outset, the terms we have defined along the way are basic concepts, and not necessarily complete functional descriptions.

These concepts become concrete in two different ways:

  • For programmers, the concepts of application, endpoint, publisher, subscriber, inbox, message, content matcher and format all become concrete through the TIBCO FTL API. For more information, see TIBCO FTL Development and the API reference material.
  • For administrators, the concepts of application, endpoint, transport, store, one-to-many publishing, one-to-one messaging, application instance, format and realm all become concrete through the TIBCO FTL realm definition. For more information, see TIBCO FTL Administration.