Tibco general interview questions answers

How to create global variables and if we create where do we
have to use in the project ?
ans :
Global variables provide an easy way to set defaults for
use throughout your project. There are several ways in
which they can be used.
Those can be created in the project pannel we will have a
tab name by Global variables there we can specify these...
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what is global variables?

Global Variables are the variables that are used anywhere
in the project. These can be called  or used across the
process or sub process that is with in the project.
Global variables can be overridden at runtime.
There are 3 types of variables
1) Global Variables-----through out the project ( used for
constants)
2) Process variables-----Activities in the project where
the variables are defined.
3) Shared Variables ------ Across multiple process instances
( used to share data)
these variables allows to specify constants that can be
used throughout the project. The constants can be specified
and changed while designing and testing your project.
Global Variables are define for the value which remain fix
during whole process.These variable's can't be modified
during process execution.
Global variables allows you to specify constants that can be
used throughout the project. The constants can be changed
while designing and testing your project. we can also set
different values for each deployment of your project. we
can add/edit the Global variables using Global Variable
Editor.
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how to create adapters?how to connect adapters? and how to
build?
TIBCO hava different adapters for different
application with different adapters those are
ActiveDatabase adapter to oracle
file adapter to file formats like different textfile,doc etc
MQ series adapter to mainframe with using webshpere
R/3  adapter for SAP
we cannot create adapters,we must install adapters which we
required.we have so many adapters such as sap,mqseries,adb,
siebel,peoplesoft etc..........we must install required
adapters for our project.
How can we connect means, after installing the req adapter
we can use the activities provided by tht adapter.
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What Activities are Supported in JTA Transaction?
The Java Transaction API (JTA) User Transaction type allows
JDBC
JMS
Active Enterprise Adapter (using JMS transports)
EJB activities
to participate in transactions.

The Java Transaction API (JTA) User Transaction type allows
JDBC
JMS
Active Enterprise Adapter (using JMS transports)
EJB activities
to participate in transactions.
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What are the Different Types of Transactions TIBCO Provides?
TIBCO Business Works offers a variety of types of transactions
 that can be used in different situations. You can use the type of transaction that suits the needs of your integration project. When you create a transaction group you must specify the type of transaction. TIBCO Business Works supports the following types of transactions
JDBC
Java Transaction API (JTA) User Transaction
XA Transaction
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What is Vcrepo.Dat?
TIBCO Designer creates a file named vcrepo.dat in the project root directory when you first save the project. This file is used to store properties such as display name TIBCO Rendezvous encoding and description. This file can be used for identification in place of the project root directory and can be used as the repository locator string (repoUrl).
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What are the TIBCO BW activities that can Participate in Transactions?
Not all TIBCO BusinessWorks activities can participate in a transaction. Only the following types of activities have transactional capabilities
JDBC activities
JMS activities
ActiveEnterprise Adapter activities that use JMS transports
EJB activities
TIBCO iProcess BusinessWorks Connector activities
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What are the Different Modes of Service Invocation?
Services can be invoked in several ways.
A one-way operation is executed once and does not wait for a response.
A request-response operation is executed once and waits for one response. In a request-response service, communication flows in both directions. The complete interaction consists of two point-to-point messages—a request and a response. The interaction is only considered complete after the response has arrived.
Publication (notification) means an operation sends information on an as-needed basis, potentially multiple times.
Subscription means incoming information is processed on an as-needed basis potentially multiple times.

What are the Revision Control System options available in TIBCO designer?
File sharing
VSS
Perforce
XML Canon
ClearCase
IPlanet
CVS
PVCS

What are the Resources that gets Included in the EAR File created by the TIBCO Designer?
An EAR file can contain local project resources LibraryBuilder resources and files as specified in AliasLibrary resources. In addition the TIBCO Designer classpath may include references to other files that are included in the EAR file.
TIBCO EAR file

What is The Role of TRA?
TRA stands for TIBCO Runtime Agent.
The TRA has two main functions
Supplies an agent that is running in the background on each machine.
The agent is responsible for starting and stopping processes that run on a machine according to the deployment information.
The agent monitors the machine. That information is then visible via TIBCO Administrator.
Supplies the run-time environment that is all shared libraries including third-party libraries.

If you have Installed a Particular Version of TIBCO Software ? What are X Y and Z Number Stands For?
Integration can be at different application layers
X Patch
Y Major
Z Minor

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What is File adapter,ADB Adapter in tibco?
DIff BW Them
*ADB Adapter for Database......The File adapter transfers
files into and out of Microsoft BizTalk Server. The File
adapter consists of two adapters—a receive adapter and a
send adapter.
*ActiveDatabase adapter to oracle
file adapter to file formats like different textfile,doc etc
ADB adapter is used to transfer bulk of data from the
application or Database to other Database.
       while configuring the ADB the PublicationService has
P_table in which the source table modified data is
triggered and this is polled into the messaging layer. From
the messaging layer the Subscriptionservice pulls the data
and stores into the target table. And now the data stored
can be accessed by different applications.
      When bulk transformation of data is required we go
for ADB.
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how to create adapters?how to connect adapters? and how to
build?
you can create adaptor by using core java.then after you
have to pass the parameter thru XML file.
adapters can be created by using adapterSDK activity.this is used to develop custom adapters.adapters can be connected through messaging layers(jms or rv)

You don't create an Adapter in TIBCO. One configures an Adapter using a an Adapter service Palette and the Business process definition that you create in Designer. Adapters are APIs like Plug-ins. TiBco SDK has already got Adapters like JDBC connection or ODBC connection for connecting to a database service. There are also Adapter Palettes available for CRM or ERP Applications like Seibel, SAP, JD Edwarts etc. If one wants to create a custom Adapter service for one has to develop a Application in Some higher level language like C++, Java, C# or VB.NET as a dll or exe and import into TIBCO shared services as a custom Palette and give its configuration parameters to define it in TIBCO Designer.
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what is soap?
how to use soap?
Simple Object Access Protocol used to send XML messages
along the network.
server oriented application protocal
it is one of web services using interner and technology
it is act as server and client
first design bw for one application, then it passed to soap
server which recieves the incoming requests via http or
soap or jms then ser proxy decodes request into call the to
application
sevice proxy is encodeswith reply
SOAP(simple object access protocol) is a protocol used to
communcate the web service provider and web service client.
to use SOAP you require a WSDL(web service description
language),which is a XML file.WSDL file contains inf.about
web service provider and its functionality.