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Table of Contents
1. Learning .......................................................................................................... 3
2. System Setup.................................................................................................. 3
3. Adapter Setup ................................................................................................. 3
4. Service Creation ............................................................................................. 4
5. Service Orchestration .................................................................................... 9
6. Deployment ................................................................................................... 10
7. Monitoring and Management....................................................................... 10
8. Change Management ................................................................................... 11
9. Performance ................................................................................................. 12
10. QA ............................................................................................................... 12

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1. Learning

TIBCO Adapter™ for Siebel: I had no previous experience with Siebel and the TIBCO Adapter
for Siebel. I studied the user guide of the adapter to figure out how to use it. It took me about 20
hours to get familiar with this.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Policy Manager: I had to learn Policy Manager from the very basics as I
had never worked on it before. Took me about 24 hours to learn and practice using this.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix®: I had some previous experience with TIBCO ActiveMatrix, but I had to
revise all that I had done. I did some practice and looked at my previous implementations before
beginning with the development of this scenario. It took me about 5 hours to do so.

2. System Setup

The TIBCO suite of products was installed on a 2GB RAM Windows XP machine. I got all the
installers and stored them in the machine first. Following is the list of the products that were
installed along with the time taken to install them.

TRA 5.5 – 5 min

BW 5.7 – 2.5 min
EMS 5. 0 – 2min
Hibernate 3.2.5 – 1.5 min
DABS 1.0 – 6 min
BWSE 5.7 – 20 min
AMSG 2.1 – 24 min
TIBCO Adapter for Siebel 5.3 – 30 min
TIBCO Adapter for SAP -
Policy Manager -

I started by installing the TRA. Most of the installations were pretty straightforward.
BWSE and AMSG installations were, however, time consuming. I ran the ActiveMatrix
administration creation wizard after installing AMSG.

3. Adapter Setup

I installed the TIBCO Siebel Adapter 5.3.1. The installation was very straightforward. In the
configuration, I provided the parameters for the Siebel system. After trying a bit, I was able to
connect to the Siebel server.

At the Siebel end, I had to import the EAI TIBCO HTTP Agent Business service which is required
to connect to the Siebel Adapter.
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4. Service Creation

StorePO service

Friday, February 27th Time: 45 min

• This BW service inserts the Purchase Order information in the database.

• It took me about 10 minutes for designing and planning this service.
• Making the PurchaseOrder schema took me another 5 minutes.
• I then created the WSDL and made an HTTP connection. After that I just right clicked on
the WSDL and clicked on Generate Web Service>From WSDL. It automatically created
the service resource and made a process definition corresponding to the operation in the
WSDL. Making the process was easy. I had to use a JDBC Update activity and configure
it. All this took about 20 minutes
• After making the BW service, I opened TIBCO Business Studio™, imported this project in
the BW component. I then attached a SOAP/HTTP server to it and created the service
assembly. This took about 8 minutes.

GetDB service

Monday, March 2nd Time: 70 min

• This BW service gets the pending purchase orders from the database and also the details of
the parts stored in the repository.
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• It took me about 15 minutes to design and plan the service.

• I used the PurchaseOrder schema from StorePO service and created a new Parts schema.
This took about 5 minutes.
• My WSDL had 2 operations – one to retrieve the purchase orders and the other to retrieve
the part details. After creating the WSDL, I just used the Generate Web Service tool to
generate the service. I lost time in figuring out some of the xml mappings in this service.
All this took about 40 minutes.
• Putting this BW service in a BW container in ActiveMatrix took another 8 minutes.

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UpdatePO service

Monday, March 2nd Time: 35 min

• This BW service updates the parts_repository table and purchase_order table. It also sends
the purchase order via JMS to GetPrice service.
• It took me about 7 minutes to design and plan this service.
• I copied the purchase order schema from the StorePO service. After that the WSDL was
created, a JMS connection (since this is a SOAP/JMS service) was made, and the service
was created as in the previous cases. The process creation was pretty straightforward. I just
had to use 2 JDBC Update activities and one JMS Queue Sender.
• It was done within 20 minutes.
• Putting this BW service in a BW container in ActiveMatrix took another 7 minutes.

CompletePO service

Friday, March 6th Time: 55 min

• This BW service takes the Purchase Order over SOAP/JMS transport and updates the status
of the purchase order and final bill in the database.
• Designing and planning took about 5 minutes.
• I had to use 2 JDBC updates which were fairly simple. Putting this BW service in a BW
container in ActiveMatrix took another 4 minutes. In ActiveMatrix, I did not wire it to a
SOAP/HTTP server, so this was a standalone BW project inside ActiveMatrix.

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Front-End Application in TIBCO General Interface

Thursday, March 5th Time: 3 hours

• This GI application is supposed to be opened by a clerk at the retailer end, where he can
view the existing purchase orders and also the parts present in the repository. Depending on
that, he can approve a particular purchase order.
• I installed TIBCO General Interface 3.5.1. Through my user interface I intended to call the
GetDB and UpdatePO service. I used the xml mapping utility to connect to these services.
• I used a matrix list for displaying all the purchase orders. It took some time for me to figure
out how to use a matrix list. Initially, I was using a matrix grid. I had to use 2 matrix lists –
one for purchase orders and the other for parts in the repository. I used a splitter to separate
the 2 lists.
• Using the matrix list for purchase order turned out to be a little complex, because the parts
element inside the purchase order schema was repeating. I finally managed to do it by
making the parts element a CDF record.
• Now, it was required that whatever purchase order is selected by the user should be sent to
the UpdatePO service. For this, I had to write some JavaScript, so that whatever row is
selected, the order id for that row is stored in a hidden textbox. Further, on click of the
“approve” button, this value is sent to the UpdatePO service.

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GetPrice Service

Thursday, March 5th Time: 93 min

This is a fairly simple service that gets the price information from the SAP application. Further it
calls the CompletePO service. I used invoke partner activity for calling the CompletePO service,
which allows service virtualization as I do not need to provide the concrete WSDL in the process.
I lost time in figuring out how to use the invoke partner activity in the BW process. In
ActiveMatrix I used a reference resource.

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5. Service Orchestration

The service orchestration was done within the service construction only as each service was calling
some other service through some transport. I used the invoke partner activity in BW to orchestrate
the CompletePO service with the GetPrice service. This allowed service virtualization as the
concrete WSDL of the CompletePO service was not needed while making the service in designer.

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6. Deployment

After creating the service assemblies for all the services I started TIBCO ActiveMatrix
Administrator. I uploaded the service assemblies, then deployed them and started them. For the
service assembly GetDB it gave an error. I just restarted the node and tried again – the error
disappeared. All in all the deployment of all the 5 BW services took me 28 minutes. The database
construction took 40 minutes.

7. Monitoring and Management

Monitoring and management through ActiveMatrix is very easy through the Monitoring and
Management perspective inside the TIBCO ActiveMatrix® Administrator.
Unit test for SOA Use Case – For unit testing I made a client for each of the services in
BusinessWorks. The clients tested successfully in the first attempt.
Service Monitor Test Scenario – I made a BW client to test the entire use case. I used the
Monitoring and Management perspective to monitor the services.

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8. Change Management

Using a different schema – I used a different schema for the GetPrice service. Instead of passing
the GetPrice service the entire purchase order I changed the schema so that it would now take only
the order_id of the purchase order. It turned out to be very simple. I had to insert JDBC activities
to fetch the remaining details of the purchase order from the database. The new GetPrice service
construction along with its deployment took me 33 minutes.

Using a different service – For this I used the new GetPrice service with the changed schema
constructed as written above. I had to un-deploy the UpdatePO service and change it, so that it
calls the new GetPrice service and then again deploy it. Took me 25 minutes to do this.

Using a Publish/Subscribe model – I replaced the JMS queue sender activity in UpdatePO with
the JMS topic sender. Also the JMS Queue Listener in GetPrice was replaced by JMS topic
subscriber activity. Modifying and deploying the 2 services again took me 28 minutes.

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9. Performance

I made a client in BW that sends 20 requests per second to each of the services individually. It took
me about 35 minutes to make this. In the ActiveMatrix Administrator I opened the Monitor and
Manage perspective, which allowed me to monitor the results of the requests. Thus the
performance testing turned out to be very easy.

10. QA

Smoke test- This test was done before the deployment of the services by making a client in BW.
This was done to ensure that all critical functionality was running. I ran each of the services in
TIBCO Designer Test Mode, and then tested them using a BW client.
The results analysis was easy and took 15 minutes to do.

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