Since all the losers on the TIBCO-L mailing list can’t seem to grasp some simple things, such as creating a TIBCO BusinessWorks’ palette with custom activities, I’ve decided to spend some time over the weekend and create a detailed step-by-step guide for doing this. It should be up on Monday afternoon.

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Suppose you have a string composed of messages which are fixed in length. However, you do not know for certain how many messages there are in the string. You need to take this string and unpack it into a list of repeating elements where each element represents one message.

How do you do this? BusinessWorks’ built in Parse activities will not help you because you do not know in advance how many messages there are in the package.

Let’s do it! Read on »

I’ve stumbled upon an article on a blog about Tibco RV vs Tibco EMS. It’s a short review of how RV and EMS compare. Some of the shortcomings that have been mentioned in the article are not really valid, yet there are others that should, I think, be addressed. Read on »

There are several ways one can collate two data sets in BusinessWorks. Supposing that they have some 1-n relationship, you could either do it by using iteration groups or by letting XPath do it for you.

Which approach is better? Let’s find out! Read on »