TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid
TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Service Grid simplifies heterogeneous SOA by enabling IT organizations to turn their business logic into services and graphically assemble, deploy, host, manage, and monitor these services together as composite applications on a single runtime foundation. Built entirely on open standards, ActiveMatrix Service Grid enables companies to expose their existing systems as services and to build new services. Organizations who have implemented SOA with ActiveMatrix have achieved 30% to 60% greater productivity compared to alternative technologies.
- Allows developers to focus on the business logic by replacing 20 to 40 percent of the technical code in a service with centralized configuration.
- Reduces architectural complexity by providing a grid- and standards-based, technology-neutral platform with service containers for .NET, Java, and other service technologies.
- Leverages open standards with an Eclipse-based environment for service development, composition and assembly, and OSGi-based runtime.
- Provides built-in governance support, allowing you to add governance without impacting existing work.
ActiveMatrix Service Grid empowers organizations to service-enable existing systems and to create new applications. It simplifies management of composite applications by making heterogeneous services location-, technology-, and protocol-independent through service virtualization. And it simplifies development and operations by providing a common Eclipse-based environment for service development, assembly, composition, and testing, and a common web-based console for monitoring and management. It reduces operational cost with built-in governance.
Key Features
Unified Service Foundation
- Provides a unified design-time and runtime service container framework. Eliminates the need for technology-dependent “wrapper code” for services enablement.
- Provides managed service containers for leading third-party technologies such as Java and .NET as well as the ability to expose external services – from existing EJB on other J2EE servers.
Distributed Grid Infrastructure
- Provides scalability by leveraging the proven foundation of TIBCO’s messaging and ESB technology in a grid-based architecture.
- Enables companies to dynamically deploy services across machines or co-locate them within an OS process, move services to different machines, and add distributed load balancing and fault tolerance.
- The distribution and number of service instances in the grid can be scaled dynamically based on the real-time load and service level agreement using TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Service Performance Manager.
Built-In Service Governance Support
- Supports UDDI-based registries such as TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Registry for service discovery.
- Provides embedded rule-based policy enforcement using TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Policy Manager and configured within TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Administrator, TIBCO’s common web-based administrator console for TIBCO products.
- Supports WS-Policy and other governance standards.
- Lets administrators configure, deploy, start, and stop service containers, services, and composite applications, and monitor composite applications top-down to quickly determine the root cause of failures.
Unified Service Development and Management
- Supports service development, composition, and assembly composition via TIBCO Business Studio™, the common design-time environment for TIBCO products.
- Built-in debugger supports testing and validation of projects within the design environment.
- Provides monitoring and management through ActiveMatrix Administrator.
Built-In Service Bus
- Embeds TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Service Bus – a lightweight enterprise service bus that helps organizations bridge the mediation gap within their SOA infrastructure, reducing complexity and increasing flexibility.
- Provides a unique AutoMediate™ capability that enables organizations to onboard numerous services simultaneously, with just a few clicks.
- Supports transport bridging across various protocols such as SOAP/HTTP(s), JMS.
