3. TIBCO SOA Tools

Monday, June 17th Time: 2 hours

I started the day with a presentation of the activities and description of the work to be done, additional I had an Q&A session with the architect.

Monday, June 17th Time: 2 hours

4. Download

The following list shows the products to download

TIBCO ActiveMatrix Business Works 5.11.0

TIBCO Designer 5.8.0

TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.8.0

TIBCO Hawk 4.9.0

TIBCO Rendezvous 8.4.0

Third Party Core Libraries 5.8.0

TIBCO Rest And JSON 1.0.0

TIBCO Enterprise Message 8.0.0

site: https://download.TIBCO.com/TIBCO/Logon.do.

It took me long time to sort out the files to download. The site above shows quite a big list of different products, each with several links. Usually, we don’t need all the links, the actual download is two or three links below the first one in the list. Here is the list of final downloads:

• TIB_rv_8.4.0_win_x86_64_vc8.zip• TIB_tra_5.8.0_win_x86_64.zip• TIB_ems_8.0.0_win_x86_64_vc8.zip• TIB_bw_5.11.0_win_x86_64.zip• TIB_TIBCOAdmin_5.8.0_win_x86_64.zip• TIB_bwpluginrestjson_1.0.0_win_x86.zip

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Monday, June 17th Time: 4 hours

5. Tools Installation And Setup

After taking a look into the product installation help, I found nothing about the Business Studio which is also an important part of the solution.

The major hurdle is finding out the installation order. The product installation generally goes smooth asking for accepting the license, selecting the installation directory (offering the default c:/tibco), and the like. Only the Administrator install asked several additional questions.

One bump I encountered in the installation was that basically what you do is unzip a file and then get to that uncompressed folder and click either TIBCOUniversalInstaller.cmd or TIBCOUniversalInstaller.exe. It would be really nice if the installation of a product comes as just one installation file. Having to support different platforms could be the cause of the weird installation procedure. That particular way of installation reminded me of other vendors such as Eclipse.

By the way, I didn't have the installation media (discs). Perhaps some adverse comments above could not apply with a load and play disc, but the download version of the installation process can be improved.

Architect’s Comment: One nice way of installation is that one of a small download installer that will prompt, wizard like, what the user needs and resolve all dependencies under the covers. Think of yum in linux world or the Web Installer tool of Microsoft, or even Eclipse Plugin installations.

Every program should be uncompressed in a separate folder, and then follow the installation order. I should follow the installation guide on the webhttps://docs.TIBCO.com/pub/activematrix_businessworks/5.9.2_may_2011/pdf/tib_bw_installation.pdf

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Below are some screens from the installation and the Administrator

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