BW Man

Tibco Business Work is used to build integration layers based on SOA principles.

Main scenario: Integrate internal source systems based on different technologies with SAP C4C CRM. An event based architecture was built using an In-Only pattern based on XML over JMS. Soap over http services exposed by SAP were easily consumed using the out of the box functionality of the product.
The integration layer was built defining a Canonical Data Model to reduce the number of transformations and simplify the code maintenance.

Reduced development time, developers can focus on the business logic without spending too much time on low level details.
In this way the developer can implement a solution focusing on performance and error handling.
It helps to develop applications easy to mantain and to update with new features.
The business functionality implemented is clear for a developer also the first time he looks at the code. Business studio interface is based on SCA standard and shows the component implemented, with services and references.
Debugging is very easy and reduce the time required to solve bugs.

XPATH and XSLT is supported out of the box to simplify each transformation logic.
XML to JSON transformation and vice-versa is supported.
WSDL or SWAGGER interface can be generated automatically, or can be used as starting point for new applications.

Unit testing is very simple using the eclipse based business studio IDE.
Debugging info for each transformation, mapping, service invoked is available from the debug tab.
OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on applications developed, like bundle,dependencies,etc...
OSGI console can be used also a runtime to debug issues with deployed applications.
Tibco enterprise administrator allow to manage runtime entities in a very simple way.