Feb 28How to debug SSL/TLS connections in BusinessWorks 6.X and BusinessWorks Container EditionMost of the transport protocols supported by BusinessWorks can be secured using SSL/TLS, this includes HTTP and JMS when connecting to EMS or MQSeries. While setting up such configuration it is often needed to have SSL/TLS level logs to be able to understand why the connection cannot be established. This…Tibco1 min read
Feb 27How to use the SmartMapper in BusinessWorks 6.X and BusinessWorks Container EditionWhile this is very common in integration projects to do mappings between structures that are different but manage variants of the same business object, like for example mapping an order from a customer portal to a SAP back-end, a Smart Mapper tool has been introduced in recent releases of BusinessWorks…Tibco3 min read
Feb 25How to run EMS instances as Windows ServicesIn a Windows environment it is possible to run EMS instances has Windows Services. This article explains how to install and uninstall an EMS instance as a Windows service. Installation of an EMS instance as a Windows Service To install an EMS instance as a Windows service do the following: …2 min read
Feb 6How to do parallel processing within a BusinessWorks processIt is generally well-known that the BusinessWorks engine is multi-threaded and that multiple instances of the same process or different processes can be executed in parallel, each process instance under execution using one of the available engine threads. This means that in general a given process instance executes in a…Tibco Businessworks6 min read
Jan 23How to call a command or a script from BusinessWorks or BusinessWorks Container EditionIt is sometimes needed to call a system command or a command script from a BusinessWorks process. This is possible using the ‘External Command’ activity but there are a few useful things to know. This article aims to explain how to use the ‘External Command’ activity in a Windows Environment. …Tibco2 min read
Jan 16How to process messages in sequence with BusinessWorksIt is a quiet common requirement in integration projects to have to process some events, generally in the form of messages handled by a Messaging solution, in the same order as they were sent by the source application. The typical example is the processing of orders coming from an online…Tibco7 min read
Jan 8How to send OSGi commands to a BusinessWorks appnode using CurlWhile in rare cases it is needed to use OSGi commands to analyse problems occurring in a BusinessWorks application this article presents the most simple way to do that. The approach is to use curl to send commands thru the available appnode OSGi http. # How to find the appnode…Tibco Businessworks2 min read
Dec 28, 2021How to configure an HTTP Client connection to access a REST API or WEB Services exposed over HTTPS in BusinessWorks 6.X and BusinessWorks Container EditionThis article explain how to configure the BusinessWorks HTTP Client connection resource to access REST API or WEB Services exposed over HTTPS. In the most common scenario (one way SSL) the BusinessWorks client application need to be configured to use at least one of the certificates of the HTTP server…Tibco6 min read
Dec 11, 2021How to implement a retry mechanism in BusinessWorks 6.X and BusinessWorks Container EditionThis is quiet common in Integration projects to connect to remote applications or systems that are sometimes unreachable or slow for a few minutes, as for example an highly loaded REST API, a remote database or a file system mounted on a remote server. This blog article explain how to…Tibco3 min read
Dec 9, 2021How to use JMS Application Properties in BusinessWorks 6.X and BusinessWorks Container EditionIt is possible to access JMS application properties in BusinessWorks while sending or receiving JMS messages. This article explains how to define a set of JMS application properties and how to use it in common JMS activities. # Definition of a set of JMS application properties . Right click on…Tibco2 min read
