TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus
TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Service Bus is a lightweight enterprise service bus that helps organizations bridge the mediation gap in their SOA infrastructure. It reduces complexity and increases flexibility and reuse by replacing hard-coded service dependencies with configuration, and can be used to quickly onboard services from a third-party environment or a TIBCO-based infrastructure.
An underlying grid-based architecture makes it possible to scale up (by adding multiple instances of ActiveMatrix Service Bus to the same JVM) and out (by adding multiple instances of ActiveMatrix Service Bus across JVMs or on different machines) dynamically at runtime and on commodity hardware. The mediation layer can scale to meet high availability and fault tolerance requirements. With ActiveMatrix Service Bus, policy enforcement is built in. Rather than having a separate component (proxy agent) bolted on top of the mediation layer, baked-in policy enforcement ensures fewer moving parts to manage, resulting in fewer security loopholes.
- Reduces complexity by enabling quick and easy onboarding of a large number of services with TIBCO's unique AutoMediate™ feature.
- Lowers cost by providing an SOA infrastructure that fits into any heterogeneous environment.
- Saves time and reduces complexity with role-based, easy-to-use lifecycle management.
- Simplifies management and prevents security breaches with built-in governance.
- Increases flexibility and service reuse by replacing hard-coded service dependencies and protocols with dynamic configuration and deployment.
Key Features of ActiveMatrix Service Bus
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- AutoMediate: Enables organizations to onboard numerous services simultaneously, with just a few clicks. There is no requirement for multiple configuration steps or coding. This eliminates point-to-point integration.
- Security: Manage secure communication across disparate systems and services. For instance, organizations can apply security policies (such as encryption, logging, etc.) for specific transaction-based interactions.
- Version management: As partners offer additional functionality via new versions of services, having a service bus enables organizations to quickly route their requests to newer versions of these services without any modification to their current services infrastructure.
- Transport bridging: Organizations can use one communication protocol internally, such as JMS, and communicate with partners via another protocol, such as HTTP/HTTPS, without having to change their internal communication patterns. ActiveMatrix Service Bus does the transport bridging to convert from one protocol to another.
- Ease of use: The design environment is based on TIBCO Business Studio™, a unified, Eclipse-based environment for TIBCO products. Mediation creation and debugging is based on a zero-coding environment that involves minimum configuration.
- Minimize errors by flow simplification: Features like custom mediation, nested routing, and context propagation allow developers to modularize and abstract custom tasks, unify flow snippets, and make in-flow decisions. This modularization allows for faster development and reduced errors in mediation flows.
- Location and transport transparency: Any service hosted on ActiveMatrix Service Bus can change its hosted location or communication protocol in a manner that is transparent to the consumers of the service.
- Context Propogation: Full message and security context propagation offers a great degree of flexibility to manage security and routing with your mediation flows.
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