Introduction

If you are looking for a way to accelerate your cloud-native integration projects, you might want to consider Tibco BW6 CE (BusinessWorks Container Edition). Tibco BW6 CE is a lightweight, scalable, and agile integration platform that lets you build, deploy, and manage microservices and applications on any cloud or container platform.

Tibco BW6 CE is based on Tibco ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.x (BW6), which is a powerful and flexible integration solution that supports a wide range of protocols, data formats, and application connectors. However, Tibco BW6 CE has some key advantages over Tibco BW6 that make it more suitable for cloud-native development.

What are the benefits of Tibco BW6 CE?

Here are some of the main benefits of using Tibco BW6 CE for your workflow development:

Faster time to market: You can focus on your business logic and leave the complex work of integrating applications and microservices to automation. You can also leverage existing skills and assets from Tibco BW6 and reuse them in Tibco BW6 CE with minimal changes.

Greater flexibility: You can deploy your applications and microservices on any cloud or container platform that supports Docker or Kubernetes, such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud Private, etc. You can also use different versions of Tibco BW6 CE runtime for different projects without affecting each other.

Higher scalability: You can scale your applications and microservices horizontally or vertically according to the demand. You can also use load balancing, service discovery, health checks, fault tolerance, circuit breaker patterns, etc. to ensure high availability and reliability.

Lower cost: You can optimize your resource utilization by running multiple instances of Tibco BW6 CE runtime on a single host machine. You can also reduce your licensing costs by paying only for what you use based on the number of cores or containers.

What are the features and components of Tibco BW6 CE?

Tibco BW6 CE consists of several features and components that enable you to create cloud-native workflows with ease. Here are some of them:

BusinessWorks Engine: This is the core component that runs inside a container either on a cloud foundry environment or on a docker based platform. It handles thousands of processes with dozens of activities in an efficient way. It also performs data transformation and validation, XPath transitions and flow control, connection and session management with recovery and retries, exception management and logging, management and monitoring services.

BusinessWorks Designer: This is the graphical user interface that allows you to design your workflows using drag-and-drop functionality. It also provides built-in tools for testing and debugging your workflows before deploying them.

BusinessWorks Application Module Project: This is the project type that contains all the resources required for creating a workflow such as processes, shared resources, schemas, mappings, etc. It also supports modular development by allowing you to create submodules and reference them in other modules.

BusinessWorks Application Project: This is the project type that contains one or more application modules and defines how they are packaged and deployed as Docker images or Cloud Foundry applications. It also supports Maven lifecycle phases such as clean, compile, package, install, deploy, etc.

BusinessWorks Plug-ins: These are extensions that provide additional functionality for integrating with various protocols and technologies such as TTP/REST/SOAP/JMS/File/Database/AWS/Azure/etc. They also provide activities and shared resources that simplify your workflow development.

By using these features and components together with best practices and tips, you can create professional-grade workflows using Tibco BW6 CE that can run on any cloud or container platform.

How to get started with Tibco BW6 CE?

If you are interested in learning more about Tibco BW6 CE and how to use it for your workflow development projects, I have good news for you. I have created a comprehensive online course that will teach you everything you need to know about Tibco BW6 CE from scratch.

In this course, you will learn:

The basics of cloud-native integration and microservices architecture.

The features and components of Tibco BW6 CE?

How to install and configure Tibco BW6 CE?

How to create simple and complex workflows using various activities?

How to use different protocols such as HTTP/REST/SOAP/JMS/File/Database/etc?

How to test and debug your workflows using built-in tools?

How to package and deploy your workflows using Maven/Docker/Kubernetes?

How to monitor and manage your workflows using TIBCO Cloud Integration (TCI)?

And much more!

This course is designed for beginners who have no prior experience with Tibco BW6 CE or cloud-native integration. However, it is also suitable for intermediate or advanced users who want to refresh their knowledge or learn new tips and tricks.

By the end of this course, you will be able to create professional-grade workflows using Tibco BW6 CE that can run on any cloud or container platform. You will also be able to pass the TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition Certification Exam with flying colors.

So what are you waiting for? Enroll Now in this course and start your journey towards becoming a cloud-native integration expert with Tibco BW.