About the JBoss EAP Enabler
Overview
A Silver Fabric Enabler allows an external application or application platform, such as a J2EE application server, to run in a TIBCO Silver® Fabric software environment. The TIBCO Silver fabric enabler for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) provides integration between Silver Fabric and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) from Red Hat.
The enabler automatically provisions, orchestrates, controls and manages a JBoss EAP standalone or clustered environment. JBoss EAP server instances are distributed and run on Silver Fabric engines, either as standalone servers or as servers belonging to a JBoss EAP partition (cluster). The management of the JBoss EAP environment through Silver Fabric is dynamic, centralized, and largely automated. This centralized management adapts the structure of the JBoss EAP environment, and manages the life cycle process state of application servers, as specified in Silver Fabric by Policies that are directed by business objectives associated with the target applications.
Architecture
The Silver Fabric engine manages a JBoss EAP standalone or clustered server instance. The Silver Fabric broker and the Silver Fabric engine instance collaborate to perform the following actions:
- Automatically provision all JBoss EAP-related and Java-Development-Kit (JDK) software to a machine with a Silver Fabric engine. All the software that is automatically provisioned is encapsulated within archive libraries (.zip or tar.gz files) and distributed to computers running Silver Fabric engines.
- Automatically start and stop JBoss EAP application servers on a node, as required by schedules specified within Silver Fabric.
- Monitor the health of the JBoss EAP Server and retrieve statistics.
