TIBCO Business Works

Narendra Thota
Agenda

ƒ Introduction to TIBCO Business Works

ƒ Uses of Business Works

ƒ Components of TIBCO Business Works

ƒ TIBCO Business Works design time Architecture.

ƒ TIBCO Business Works run time Architecture.

ƒ Features of TIBCO Business Works.

ƒ TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

ƒ TIBCO BW Palettes

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Why do we need Business Integration ?

ƒ The Integrated Enterprise works seamlessly.

ƒ Enterprise applications of varied architectures understand each
other.
ƒ Seamless communication enhances efficiency.
efficiency
ƒ Reduced or zero manual intervention.
ƒ Improves response times to customer needs
needs.
ƒ Real-time information exchange.

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What does TIBCO BusinessWorks do?

ƒ Provides Business Integration

ƒ Defines Business Processes.

ƒ Establishes connections between Enterprise Applications and

Enterprise Business Process Definitions.

ƒ Automates Business Processes.

ƒ Manages Process Exceptions.

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TIBCO BW – How it works?

Business Integration

Define process rules and

flows in an easy-to-use
y GUI Model
Configure connectivity to
applications through TIBCO
Adapter services Assemble
sse b e
Propagate process definitions to
hardware components and start
Process engines Deploy
Monitor processes and handle
Process exceptions Manage
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Sample Process Flow

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BWÆDesign-time Architecture

Project Version TIBCO

Control Administration Server

Deploy
Enterprise Archive (EAR)

TIBCO Designer

ƒ TIBCO Designer
D i GUI iis used
d to configure
fi adapter
d servicesand
i d
design business processes
ƒ The processes are deployed using the TIBCO Administrator

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BWÆ Run-time Architecture

TIBCO Administration Server TIBCO

Runtime Agent
Evaluate
Business Rules,,

Connect to Perform
RV/JMS
p
Enterprise Applications
pp Transformations
Fault tolerant Process Engines
Fault-tolerant
through Adapter Services HTTP,
ODBC,JDBC
SOAP,
SMTP
Communicate over
Connect to File and
the Internet
Database systems
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BW Components

ƒ TIBCO Designer.
ƒ TIBCO BusinessWorks engine.
ƒ TIBCO Administrator.
ƒ TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA).

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TIBCO BW Palettes

ƒ Process Palette
ƒ Active Enterprise Adapter Palette
ƒ EJB Palette
ƒ File Palette
ƒ FTP Palette
ƒ General
G Activities Palette
ƒ HTTP Palette
ƒ Java
J Palette
P l
ƒ JDBC Palette
ƒ Workflow
W kfl palette
l tt

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TIBCO BW Palettes (Cont’d)

ƒ JMS Palette
ƒ Mail Palette
ƒ Manual Work Palette
ƒ Parse Palette
ƒ Rendezvous Palette
ƒ SOAP
SO Palette
ƒ WSDL Palette
ƒ XML A
Activities
i ii P Palette
l
ƒ Service Palette
ƒ Policy
P li P Palette
l tt

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Process Palette

ƒ Allows to define business processes.

ƒ mandatory
d t palette
l tt for
f allll business
b i processes
ƒ All BW palettes appear on double-clicking this palette in
designer

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

ƒ Messaging.

ƒ Adapters Services.

ƒ Business Process Modeling

Modeling.

ƒ Schemas and Data Mapping.

ƒ Manual Activities.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Features
ƒ Messaging

ƒ TIBCO Business Works has messaging system that can reliably

handle the volume of messages that will be sent and received
by it.

ƒ The system has the following characteristics:

ƒ Guaranteed and fault tolerant.
ƒ Distributed architecture.
ƒ High Throughput.
ƒ Scalable.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Features
ƒ Adapters

ƒ Adapters receive information from a source application and

publish it to the business process in a shared format

ƒ Adapters subscribe to information from a business process.

ƒ Translate it to a format the target application can understand.

ƒ Adapters can also be set up to work in a client/server mode

ƒ Manual Activities

ƒ BW includes a Manual Work palette with activities to add to

business processes when the process requires user interaction for
completion.

ƒ The ManualWork palette works with TIBCO InConcert.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

ƒ Schemas and Data Mapping

ƒ Data can be mapped and transformed in in the required formats

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

ƒ Process Definition

ƒ Process definition is a graphical representation of the business process

model

ƒ Process definition consists of the following

ƒ Activities
ƒ Transitions
ƒ Groups
ƒ Shared Configuration Resources
ƒ Sub processes

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 HelloWorld Process

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Global Variables

ƒ Provide an easy way to set default values for use throughout the
project.

ƒ Click on the Global Variables tab to configure the Global Variables.

ƒ To
T create
t a new global
l b l variable
i bl

ƒ Click on Add new variable/variable group Icon.

ƒ Specify a name.
ƒ Assign a value.
ƒ Press Enter.
ƒ The global variable is now displayed in the global variables list.

ƒ Variables can also be configured to be specified on a per-deployment

or a per-service
i b basis.
i

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Global Variables

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Global Variables

ƒ To use the global variable in the fields of a resource, enter the

variable name surrounded by %% on both sides
sides.

ƒ Most p
projects
j define some standard variables,, but yyou may
y define
any variables you need.

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 Global Variables & Process
Variables

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Activities
ƒ Individual units of work within a process definition
ƒ Interface to external systems
ƒ Palette has a set of activities that can be performed for that palette
ƒ Example, File Palette contains the following activities
ƒ Create File
ƒ Remove File
ƒ Read File
ƒ Write File

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Transitions

ƒ Describe the flow of processing.

ƒ Is represented by an arrow between two activities or groups of
activities in a process definition.
ƒ Conditions can be specified on transitions to determine whether to
take the transition to the next activity or not.
ƒ Control cannot be transitioned to a previously executed activity.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Transition Types

ƒ Success : Take this transition unconditionally.

ƒ Success with condition : Transition is taken if the condition specified
evaluates to true.
ƒ Success if no matching condition : Transition is taken if no other
transitions are taken .
ƒ Error : Transition is taken if there is an error during processing of the
activity.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Grouping Activities
ƒ Groups are used to specify related sets of activities.
ƒ Main uses of groups are to create a set of activities for the following
purposes
ƒ Common error transition
ƒ Participate
P ti i t iin ttransaction
ti
ƒ Repeating set of activities

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Grouping Activities - Types of Groups

ƒ None
N :U
Used
d ffor grouping
i without
ith t llooping
i
ƒ Transaction Groups : Used to group activities that participate in a
transaction. Eg.
g JDBC g
group
p activities
ƒ Iterate Loop : Used to iterate a group once for every item in a list
ƒ Repeat Until True Loop : Used to iterate a group until the specified
condition is true
ƒ Repeat On Error Until True Loop : Used to iterate a group when an error
occurs
ƒ If Groups: To conditionally execute business logic

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Grouping Activities - Types of Groups

ƒ While
Whil TTrue G
Groups: R
Repeats
t th
the series
i off grouped
d activities
ti iti as llong as
the given condition evaluates as true.
ƒ Critical Section : Used to synchronize
y p
process instances so that only
y
one process instance executes the grouped activities at any given time.
ƒ Pick First : Allow process execution to wait for one or more events

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 Group Activities

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Shared Configuration Resources

ƒ These resources are shared among activities.
ƒ The resources include
ƒ Database connections
ƒ WSDL files
ƒ Schema
S h d
definitions
fi iti
ƒ Server Connections – like HTTP, FTP

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Subprocesses
ƒ Help in modular design of process definitions.
ƒ Can reuse subprocesses across many process definitions.
ƒ Call Process activity is used to call a subprocess.
ƒ Input, output, and any error schemas of the subprocess are specified on
the Start and End activities within the subprocess.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

XPATH
ƒ Is the language for defining conditions and transformations
ƒ XPath formula builder can be used to build xpath expressions
ƒ Contains many string, date time, custom functions
ƒ Supports drag & drop building of expressions

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Error Handling
ƒ Handled using error transitions.
transitions
ƒ Can deal with any potential runtime errors in process definitions .
ƒ ‘Generate
Generate Error’
Error activity can be used to raise custom error
conditions.
ƒ Error data is available to activities that execute after the error
transition
ƒ In the error p
process variables
ƒ $_error
ƒ $_
$ error_<activityName>
y

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Inter-Process Communication
ƒ Two executing process instances can communicate
ƒ Wait , Notify, Receive Notification activities are used
ƒ A String key is used to correspond Notify activities with wait or Receive
Notification
ƒ Data to be shared is defined by a ‘Notify Configuration’ shared
configuration resource
ƒ Process engines are on different machines should use a database to
store p
process instance information
ƒ Same ‘Notify Configuration’ resource is used to configure the Notify
activity as well as the Wait activity and the Receive Notification process
starter
t t

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TIBCO BusinessWorks Process Design

Testing Process Definitions

ƒ BW provides a testing environment to test process definitions

ƒ Any process definition can be selected for testing
ƒ BW engine is started for testing e process definition
ƒ Break Points can be set which
ƒ Allow to suspend a running process instance at a specified point to examine
the process data.
ƒ Can be set before or after an activity with conditions too
ƒ persist even after closing the project

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File Palette

ƒ File palette is used to read, write, delete, or create files

ƒ Copy File
e
ƒ The Copy File activity allows you to copy files and directories to a new location

ƒ Create File
ƒ The Create File activity creates a new file or directory with the specified name

ƒ File Poller
ƒ The File Poller process starter polls for files or directories with the given name
and starts a process when the specified change (creation
(creation, modification
modification, deletion)
is detected

ƒ List Files
ƒ The List Files activity returns information about files or directories, or a listing of
all the files in the specified directory.

ƒ Read File
ƒ The Read File activity
y is used to read a file and place
p its contents into the
activity’s output.

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File Palette

ƒ File palette is used to read, write, delete, or create files

ƒ Remove
e o e File
e
ƒ The Remove File activity removes the specified file. This activity can also remove
empty directories. If a directory that is not empty is specified, an exception is
thrown.

ƒ Rename File
ƒ The Rename File activity is used to rename or move files.

ƒ Wait for File Change

g
ƒ The Wait for File Change activity waits for a file creation, modification, or deletion
event to occur during process execution
ƒ Write File
ƒ The Write File activity writes content to the specified file.

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 File Palette

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HTTP Palette
ƒ HTTP Connection
ƒ The HTTP Connection resource describes the characteristics of the connection used to
receive incoming HTTP requests

ƒ HTTP Receiver
ƒ Starts a process based on the receipt of a HTTP request.

ƒ Proxy Configuration
ƒ Used to specify a proxy HTTP server when HTTP requests are sent outside of a
firewall.

ƒ Send HTTP Request

ƒ Sends a HTTP request to a web server

ƒ Send HTTP Response

p
ƒ Sends a response to a previously received HTTP request

ƒ Wait for HTTP Request

ƒ S
Suspends
d th
the currentt process until
til th
the iincoming
i HTTP requestt is
i received.
i d

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 HTTP Palette

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Parse Palette

ƒ The Parse palette provides shared configuration resources and

activities for parsing and rendering formatted text
text.

ƒ Data Format
ƒ The Data Format resource contains the specification for parsing or rendering a text string

ƒ Parse Data
ƒ Takes a text string
g or input
p from a file to schema

ƒ Render Data
ƒ Converts data to text string

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 Parse Palette

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 TCP Palette

ƒ The TCP/IP palette provides activities and resources that can send
g the TCP/IP p
and receive data using protocol.
ƒ Read TCP Data
ƒ The Read TCP Data activity reads data from an open TCP connection

ƒ TCP Cl
Close C
Connection
ti
ƒ The TCP Close Connection activity closes a TCP connection opened by a previously
executed activity or process starter.

ƒ TCP Connection
ƒ The TCP Connection is a shared configuration resource that specifies the connection
information for the TCP server

ƒ TCP Open Connection

ƒ The TCP Open Connection activity opens a connection to a TCP server.

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 TCP Palette

ƒ TCP Receiver
ƒ The TCP Receiver process starter starts a new process when a client requests a TCP
connection.

ƒ Wait for TCP Request

ƒ The Wait for TCP Request activity waits for a TCP client connection request.

ƒ Write TCP Data

ƒ The Write TCP Data activity sends data on the specified TCP connection

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 TCP Palette

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 XML Tools Palette

ƒ Provides a set of tools enabling the creation, management, and

validation of XML schemas (XML Schema or DTD) and XML
instance documents.
ƒ Schema
ƒ The Schema resource enables the creation of an XML Schema file

ƒ DTD
ƒ The DTD resource enables the creation of a DTD (Document Type Definition)

ƒ Instance
ƒ XML instance documents are XML documents -- typically representing data-oriented
business documents
documents, messages
messages, and configuration files -- that conform to the rules of an
XML Schema or DTD

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 XML Tools Palette

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XML Activities Palette

ƒ This palette provides activities for parsing XML strings into schemas
and rendering schemas into XML strings
ƒ Parse XML
ƒ Converts and XML string or file to XML schema
ƒ Render XML
ƒ Converts XML Schema to XML string
ƒ Transform XML
ƒ Allows to transform input XML document into the output specified by the given
XSLT File shared configuration resource.

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 XML Activities Palette

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 Questions?

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