Web Methods and Tibco

[Ankur]

IS there any adapter / method available to make webmethods documents talk to Tibco?

[reamon]

I don't think a "direct" adapter exists but since both tool sets support a wide variety of adapters it shouldn't be too hard to hook two of them togther.

For Integration Server, you could interact with the proper TIBCO/RV adapter to exchange XML docs over HTTP.

You could possibly use the JMS facilities of both ES and RV to interoperate.

[smartohana]

I'd imagine that HTTP could be used to communicate directly with TIBCO's Integration Server equiv.

[dgreen]

With the TIBCO Rendezvous API in hand, you could also write Java code to drop into an Enterprise Server ILA Adapter (or any other adapter, for that matter).

[Robert Moser]

Tibco has an ActiveEnterprise and BusinessConnect offering that may do what you want. However, depending on your needs, it may be just as easy to put something together yourself, particularly if it is all in the same organization.

Supposing it is the same organization, if it were me, I would install the Tibco client on the WM server machine. Then, add the Java client jar to the WM class path, the Tibco library directory to the shared-lib path for the java VM, and write to the Tibco java API. It is all pretty straightforward. This configuration will have the best performance, in terms of throughput and memory usage, versus some of the alternatives, at the expense of more configuration and more code. Note the alternatives given in previous posts will work well for the more difficult case of talking across organizations.

[amedeo]

I'm looking for a solution based on JMS to exchange data between Tibco and webmethods 6.1.

do you think is it possible?

[rmg]

Amedeo,

I believe you can use the IS6.0/6.1 WmJMS Adapter(pub/sub Queues) or WmJBoss Adapter and exchange messages to any Internal/external systems.
Other easy methods would be Http transport communication as mentioned in the above posts.

HTH,

[griffima]

Ah the joy of standards. As you no doubt already know by now JMS providers don't talk to each without some help. You can write the bridge yourself using the API's of TIBCO and webMethods or you can do as everyone is suggesting and use HTTP on both sides. I would take it a step further and write a generic flow service in webMethods that would publish inbound requests from any source not just TIBCO. Expose this as a webService if you want. Do the same thing on the TIBCO. Don't make these services specific to any particular message type but rather use xml and an a detailed header to control publishing and correct routing.

We are using this generic publish service technique, it works very well. webMethods does have a JMS Adapter designed to serve as this bridge, unfortunately for you it does not support TIBCO. You should get off TIBCO immediately and consolidate onto the webMethods platform. http://www.wmusers.com/wmusers/clipart/happy.gif