Configuring Shells for StreamBase

StreamBase installations on Windows provide the StreamBase Command Prompt in the Windows Start menu. This opens a command prompt with its PATH and environment ready for use with StreamBase and Live Datamart tools. There is no need to manually configure the system or user environment in Windows.

If you prefer to use a UNIX-like environment on Windows such as Cygwin, use the Linux settings below as a guide for configuring your Bash setup files. Remember that absolute paths in Cygwin take the form /cygdrive/c/TIBCO... instead of C:\TIBCO.

Modify the environment of all users who will use and develop with StreamBase by adding the following commands to their shell startup files. If you expect to install and run StreamBase Runtime nodes with a specific server-only username, be sure to modify the environment for that username as well.

Notice that the first command uses the back quote character ( ` ), not the single quote character:

eval `/opt/tibco/sb-cep/7.7/bin/sb-config --env`
export TIBCO_EP_HOME=$STREAMBASE_HOME

Make sure these commands are executed automatically for every shell window opened by adding commands like the following to shell startup files such as .bash_profile for each user:

if [ -x /opt/tibco/sb-cep/7.7/bin/sb-config ]; then
  eval `/opt/tibco/sb-cep/7.7/bin/sb-config --env`
  export TIBCO_EP_HOME=$STREAMBASE_HOME
else
  echo "No StreamBase installation detected."
fi

The sbconfig --env command sets an LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable for you, but that variable is no longer needed or used on recent Linux distributions. If that variable has no other use on your system by other products, you can remove that setting with a line like the following:

unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Remember that StreamBase supports only Oracle JDK 8. Linux distributions are usually configured to use the OpenJDK version of Java. On Linux, you can take advantage of the Oracle JDK bundled with StreamBase by adding lines like the following to your shell environment:

export JAVA_HOME=$STREAMBASE_HOME/jdk
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Place these lines after the export line in the startup script example above.

Modify the environment of all users who will use and develop with StreamBase on this Mac by adding the following commands to shell startup files such as .bash_profile.

There is no default installation folder for StreamBase installations on macOS. If you use the .archive-bin installers, StreamBase installs by default in /opt/tibco, as on Linux. In this case, use the Linux settings above as a guide to shell configuration settings on macOS.

If you used the DMG installer, you can drag the StreamBase folder to any location on your Mac. The standard location for macOS programs is usually the system /Applications folder, but TIBCO recommends installing to ~/Applications, which is a folder also named Applications at the root of your home directory. The examples below presume you are using TIBCO's recommended installation path.

eval `~/Applications/TIBCO StreamBase 7.7.2/bin/sb-config --env`
export TIBCO_EP_HOME=$STREAMBASE_HOME

To make sure these commands are executed automatically for every Terminal window, add commands like the following to the shell initialization file for each user.

if [ -d ~/Applications/TIBCO\ StreamBase\ 7.7.2/bin ] ; then
  eval `~/Applications/TIBCO\ StreamBase\ 7.7.2/bin/sb-config --env`
  export TIBCO_EP_HOME=$STREAMBASE_HOME
else
  echo "No StreamBase installation detected."
fi

On macOS, if you have an Oracle JDK installed on your Mac (whose version is the same as the one installed with StreamBase or newer), you can use these lines to configure command-line Java:

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 8`
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

If you do not have a separate Oracle JDK installed, you can take advantage of the JDK bundled with StreamBase with lines like the following:

export JAVA_HOME=$STREAMBASE_HOME/jdk
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

In addition to the usual macOS ways to open a Terminal, StreamBase Studio provides a shortcut. Select the top level of an EventFlow or LiveView project folder in Studio's Project Explorer, right-click, and select Open StreamBase Command Terminal Here from the context menu. This opens a Terminal whose current directory is the selected project's directory in the Studio workspace.

cd ~/Applications
ln -s TIBCO\ StreamBase\ 7.7.2 streambase

if [ -d ~/Applications/streambase/bin ] ; then
    eval `~/Applications/streambase/bin/sb-config --env`
    export TIBCO_EP_HOME=$STREAMBASE_HOME
else
    echo "No StreamBase environment detected."
fi

The shell environment on macOS and Linux requires the environment variable settings shown in this section. TIBCO recommends configuring your shell environment by using the sb-config --env command, as described in the Linux and macOS sections above.

The first set of variables are set by the sb-config --env command:

The following settings must be made manually:

To develop client programs that will access StreamBase servers or Live Datamart servers, you may need to specify additional environment settings. Use sb-config command options such as sb-config --cxx or sb-config --classpath to configure your development environment. See the sb-config reference page for details.