Adapters for TIBCO

Active Database Adapter (ADB)

- A real time bi-directional gateway between databases and applications

- Supports both publish-subscribe and request-response interactions

- Proactively notifies applications of changes that occur inside the database - Subscribe to messages from other applications and capture the messages into target tables in the database - Requests from applications are processed by the adapter and replies containing the processed request are sent back by the adapter to the requesting application - Works with ODBC and JDBC compliant databases (Oracle, Sybase, and MS SQL Server)

ADB Architecture

Services of the ADB

Publications - Method to monitor an individual table & publish any change as entire record over the TIB with flag (I, U, D) Subscriptions Method to take incoming information in and store it on the database Request/Reply - Allows adapter to query (request) the database and send back immediate response (reply) Request - Multiple SQL and/or procedure statements to be processed Reply - Answer for these messages processed by the agent Listener - To configure a publisher agent that sends messages on subjects using the RVCM - Adds a subscriber agent (called a listener) to the publisher agent's preregistered list - Subscriber agent is certified to receive all messages sent on the specified subject Parent Child Relationship Publications Table Relationships - To send out extra information with a publication Subscriptions Child Table Mapping - Used by subscriber agent to process a message that includes data from the publishing (parent) table and related data from another (child) table 5

Features
- Automatically publish data as TIBCO RV messages when rows in pre-specified DB tables are modified Publish data by value creating a copy Publish data by reference w/o creating a copy Publish on parameterized subjects subject created from contents of PT columns Publish data using TIBCO RV reliable delivery, certified delivery or both Pre-register certified subscribers with a certified publisher Publish both parent and all related child rows when user set up to publish child data - Automatically subscribe to data published as TIBCO RV messages and modify the data in pre-specified DB tables - Use request-response semantics to publish SQL statements, stored procedures, or both on a specified subject Support both RV Message and AE Message wire formats Support RPC (Remote Procedure Calls)

Publish by Value
- Modified data in the source table is duplicated in the PT - ADB selects the data from the PT, compose a message and sends it to RV - Advantage - Publish by copy is fast - Disadvantage - Does not support some data types(Oracle LONG and LONG RAW)

Publish by Reference
- Publish data directly from the source table without copying to a publishing table - Operate on the key value of source table copied into PT - Advantage : Data to be published is stored just once Data types such as Oracle LONG and LONG RAW are supported Publishing by value from a top-level table is unsupported due to database trigger limitations - Disadvantage : Small time gap between source table modification & picked up by adapter

Parameterized Subjects
- Created from contents of one or more columns in a publishing table eg - TIBCO.ORDER.$ORDER_ID.$ORDER_DESCRIPTION - Allows receiving applications to filter publications based on value of certain fields - Supported with certified & reliable delivery - Restrictions : Max 255 char in length, with each component max 127 char (Content <= 7 Col Name)

Publication-Subscription Services Flow

Typical Request-Response Service Flow

ADB Architecture Components

Run-time Adapter - A bi-directional bridge between your database and the TIBCO environment

Design-time Adapter - Used at design-time to fetch the tables from your database that need to be configured for an adapter instance.
TIBCO Run-time Agent - Provides connectivity to other applications configured for the TIBCO environment. Polling or Alerter Polling - Monitor frequent changes to PT Alerter - Asynchronously alert the adapter of infrequent changes in PT Referencing External Schemas - External schema can be referenced when specifying a publisher source table or subscriber destination table Exception Table - If a subscriber adapter fails to write data to its destination table, it will write the data to the exception table. Loop Detection - If a source table is used both as the source and destination table on the same subject, the loop detection feature should be enabled, to prevent the same changes from being published repeatedly 10

Publish-Subscribe Exercise
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ORDER_TABLE

Pub_Order

Sub_Order

Order_ID

Order_ID Order_Description Order_Price

ADB related columns

Order_ID Order_Description, Order_Price

Order_Description,
Order_Price

Agentone

Agenttwo

ADB.agentone.ORDER
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Parent/Child Tables Exercise

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CUSTOMER

XXX

XXX

Order_Details

XXX

XXX

XXX

XXX

Internal_Order_Items

External_Order_Items

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