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TIBCO Rendezvous

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Developer(s)
  
TIBCO Software

Development status
  
Active

License
  
Proprietary

Stable release
  
8

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Type
  
Message-oriented middleware

TIBCO Rendezvous is a software product that provides a message bus for enterprise application integration (EAI).

Details

TIBCO provides messaging APIs in C, C++, Java, Visual BASIC, Perl and .NET to provide messaging between two or more services.

The basic message passing is conceptually simple:

  • A message has a single subject composed of elements separated by periods. A message is sent to a single Rendezvous Daemon (though it may end up being broadcast onto Daemons).
  • A listener announces its subjects of interest to a Daemon (with a basic wildcard facility) and messages with matching subjects are delivered to it if the two daemons are 'connected' to each other (or indeed the same daemon).

    • Considerable "Enterprise" functionality is layered onto this if desired with Fault Tolerance/Reliable or Certified options possible, all implemented through the underlying basic messages.

    The messages themselves can be viewed as typed name-value fields and/or number-value fields (the two identification mechanisms within a message can mix and match with certain restrictions). A message can itself contain sub-messages which themselves may contain sub-messages, and so on.

    The quality of the respective API implementations varies considerably. The C++ library is simply a wrapper providing an OO view over the C implementation. Likewise the Java and .NET implementations wrap the C++ implementation. This has led to memory management issues with the .NET implementation (though not with the COM Interop version which is considerably more cumbersome).

    References

    TIBCO Rendezvous Wikipedia
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