Product Overview TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for Generic Adapter is a complementary software component that enables TIBCO Adapter projects to be published in cloud environments based on TIBCO Silver Fabric to leverage Silver Fabric capabilities. This accelerates publishing of TIBCO Adapter projects, enforces its industry best practices, and provides elastic optimization of computing resources. A TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for Generic Adapter is a classic container and component type. It provides scripts to build new Silver Fabric custom distributions from scratch. You can choose and configure the adapter of your choice from the existing TIBCO Adapters and can build distribution for it. For some Adapters, even if the distributions are provided by TIBCO, you can choose to build your own distributions. However, you can choose only the Adapters that use TIBCO Runtime Agent and TIBCO domain. It is possible to build distributions for SDK custom Adapters also. Using TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for Generic Adapter, you can generate the following common features for any Adapter: • Create and update a machine • Start Hawk • Define Hawk running condition • Detect deployment • Logging If you want any other custom behavior in your distribution, you must develop it using the script and upload it to the component. Also, to use the TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for TIBCO Generic Adapter with a non existing enabler for Adapter that has a specific behavior, it must be first developed and tested by you. By default TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for Generic Adapter supports all the generic features of TIBCO Adapter, after it is deployed in a TIBCO Silver® Fabric environment: • Adapter Configuration • Publication Service • Subscription Service • Read Schema • Write Schema (Classic and Manual) • Delimited File Record • Layout File Record • Positional File Record For more information on the features supported by the Adapter, refer to the documentation of that product. Main Functionalities TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for Generic Adapter provides the following main functionalities: • You can quickly set up a TIBCO domain environment on multiple machines. Then you can use TIBCO Administrator to publish the Adapter projects onto this environment using traditional tools, such as TIBCO Administrator user interface or its command-line tools. • You can quickly define, set up, and publish a complete stack based on Adapter projects onto a set of virtual or physical machines. These actions include installation of this software, creation of TIBCO domain, starting up TIBCO Administrator Server, and publish the Adapter projects on one or multiple machines. • You can ensure that the installations follow a set of recommended and supported TIBCO practices to implement fault tolerance, load balancing, software updates, and updates. • You can scales up and down the number of Adapter engines required to process the workload. Therefore, it provides elasticity and optimization of computing resources. Components TIBCO Silver Fabric Enabler for Generic Adapter consists of the following components: • TIBCO Adapter Enabler which is used to configure, start, and manage Adapter engines and its published stack. • A set of distributions that includes all the software pieces required to run an Adapter environment: TIBCO Runtime Agent, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO Hawk, and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter.