• Documentation

    Software Release 3.3.0 February 2007.

  • Documentation

    Installation guide. (Hint: Unzip GI Professional .zip archive or if you're using GI Enterprise, run the installer application.)
     

  • Documentation

    Get started with a high level overview of the product and a step by step "create your first project" tutorial in the "Creating an Application"chapter.
     

  • Documentation

    This guide for developers covers the basic concepts of developing with TIBCO General Interface from creating GUIs to connecting to sources of data, through testing, debugging and logging. The guide also includes a step by step "Communicating with Web Services" tutorial to walk you through how to use TIBCO General Interface's XML Mapping Utility, a visual tool for connecting to XML or SOAP services.
     

  • Documentation

    A guide to the ready made GUI components in TIBCO General Interface including layout containers, form elements, data grids, trees, charts, and more. Includes instructions for creating your own custom instances of these components and registering them for use in your personal GUI components library.
     

  • Documentation

    No migration is needed from 3.2 to 3.3. Contains a list of tasks to complete for migrating General Interface version 3.1 applications to version 3.2 and 3.3.

  • Video Tutorials

    Getting Started Video Tutorials for TIBCO General Interface Builder 3.3

    Video tutorials for 3.3 have not been posted yet. In the mean time view the version 3.1 video tutorials. Versions 3.1 and 3.2, and 3.3 are substantially similar except as noted in the 3.2 release notes, 3.3 release notes, and the 3.1 to 3.2 migration guide.

  • Video Tutorials

    H&R Block Sr. Systems Architect, Dan Cahoon, shares how H&R Block delivered SOA-connected Ajax portlets to its more than 12,000 branch offices to deliver composite workspaces streamlining the staffing operations for the nation's largest seasonal employer. Dan shares his learning from the project and discusses the successful pattern they are reusing to get more solutions to market quickly.

    Howard Weingram, Sr. Architect for TIBCO PortalBuilder, shows you:
    • How to deploy rich Ajax portlets to JSR-168 and other types of portlet containers.
    • The role of a proxy in accesssing data across hosts and domains.
    • How to architect for modular applications that publish and subscribe to events and message using an Ajax PageBus architecture.

  • Sample Projects xignite.com logo

    This feature rich solution that communicates with Xignite.com's financial web services contains many examples of best practices for architecting and coding GI solutions including progressive loading of components, and publish/subscribe events and messages. Explore the preview, then get the source and join the discussion.

  • Sample Projects

    GI 3.2 apps run in GI 3.3. So check out the 3.2 Sample Projects for more examples of common implementation patterns.

  • Tips and Techniques

    This document describes how a TIBCO General Interface application communicates with web servers across subdomains. There are two general scenarios for accessing a TIBCO General Interface application, local provisioning and remote provisioning. Local provisioning requires no configuration, if default browser security settings are used. Remote provisioning requires either configuring proxy communication or modifying default browser security settings

  • Tips and Techniques

    This document describes Microsoft Internet Explorer's file caching in relation to General Interface. It also discusses how to avoid stale XML data in Internet Explorer and recommends best practices for running General Interface applications and General Interface Builder on Internet Explorer.

    Version 1.0. 02-09-2007
    Scope: Version 3.3.0

  • Tips and Techniques

    For more see the Tips and Techniques documents for GI 3.1 while noting differences between versions as described inrelease notes and migration guides of subsequent releaes.

  • White Paper

    This whitepaper provides an introductory, high-level business and technical overview of TIBCO General Interface, a powerful rich client software that delivers the look, speed and performance of desktop installed software, yet requires no end user installation. This whitepaper addresses the industry's need for rich client technology and TIBCO General Interface's unique architectural advantages that drive measurable benefits for the enterprise.