TIBCO Tools

Green Hat Consulting have used their EAI experiences to create a suite of tools to help you work with TIBCO and other middleware technologies. Using the tools, you can automate TIBCO testing, store messages for audit and monitor network traffic. At different stages of the project lifecycle, different tools are required, the diagram below helps you decide which tool is best for you. Once you have decided which one you require, you can download an evaluation copy.




GH Tester

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design build
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GH Tracker

GH Viewer

 test

GH Tester

GH Tracker

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Design

During the design phase of the project, efforts concentrate on planning. The first question Green Hat can help you answer is whether or not the network has the capacity for the system you are planning. GH Viewer can help you in this capacity planning exercise.

Having designed your message schemas, surely development can begin? Many projects have tried this, and then failed during systems integration testing as the components have not been able to exchange messages. Root cause analysis of this problem reveals users misinterpreted the design specification. They came up with their own test data, and implemented their components to work with this data. If only there had been a way of creating example messages at design time, many problems could have been overcome. GH Tester helps you build messages at design time.

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Build

During the build phase of the project, there is a need to send ad hoc messages. tibrvsend is very limited in this respect. rvstream allows this to be done but is not easy to configure. When it comes to TIBCO ActiveEnterprise messages, you are on your own.

GH Tester not only provides an intuitive tree display to view and publish messages, but is also aware of ActiveEnterprise schemas. Simply select the schema you want from a list, and add your data to the nodes. Sequences and unions are fully supported. GH Tester interacts directly with the TIBCO Repository, there is no need to separately enter the schemas.

A major time-saver on projects is the ability to capture and then replay messages at will. GH Tester makes this process simple, and allows messages to be edited before they are republished. This single feature alone has saved our consultants and our customers countless hours on projects. Adapter simulation can be provided at this stage, allowing development to proceed even in the absence of key components.

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Test

Traditional testing tools find the intricacies of an asynchronous message-based system difficult to cope with. Couple this with the rising use of XML inside TIBCO messages and they are far from optimal.

GH Tester has many features specifically designed for operation in the test phase of a project. Missing adapters are simulated, performance can be checked. By comparing messages automatically, GH Tester can save test team members hours of painstaking effort.

Using GH Tester, you can completely automate testing of TIBCO systems, dramatically reducing the time needed to regression test a new release.

A wide range of features enable interaction with external systems such as databases and files. Convincing, useful, stub adapters can be built in minutes, without writing a single line of code. This is coupled with the peace of mind that comes with verifying system functionality independently of the developer's own code.

Wider, more detailed system information can be provided by GH Tracker, as well as a historic record of all testing performed. GH Tracker makes it easy to see how an individual process in IntegrationManager or BusinessWorks executed.

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Run

During the Run phase of a project, TIBCO is like a high-tech, modern car engine: it rarely fails, but when it does, you want an expert looking under the hood. Green Hat's suite of tools are recognised by our customers as essential to running a TIBCO system with complete peace of mind.

GH Tracker will store every message on the bus, allowing powerful searches for problem messages and their subsequent repair and replay. A range of features cope with the realities of organisational structures and responsibilities. Problem messages can be captured from production systems and passed to development teams for more in-depth analysis and for regression testing of the fix.

Underneath the covers of the TIBCO Rendezvous protocol lies the network. Is it working properly? Is there more or less traffic than this time last week, since the roll-out of that new software release? Have we completely managed to remove that old version of Rendezvous from all the servers? GH Viewer can provide answers to these questions and more.

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