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Tutorial: Using the BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous to Send Data

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You can use the BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous to send data to a TIBCO system. This walkthrough describes an SDK sample that illustrates this.

Prerequisites

  • Install Visual Studio on the BizTalk Server that the adapter is running on in order to build and deploy the sample.

  • The sample uses a DLL containing message context properties: Microsoft.BizTalk.Adapters.TibRV.Properties.dll. You may need to update the solution's reference to this library. For more information, see BizTalk Server Message Context Properties (Send Handlers).

About the sample

  • This sample picks up an XML file from a file folder, sends the file to an orchestration, and then uses the BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous to create a record in the TIBCO system.

  • This sample, designed in Visual Studio, illustrates basic functionality using the BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous with a BizTalk orchestration.

  • The default location for the sample is C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications\TIBCO(r) Rendezvous(r)\Sdk\OneWaySend, and includes the following files:

    Runtime Project Filename Runtime Project File Description
    OneWaySend.btproj

    OneWaySend.sln    		 Project and solution files for the application.
    Schema.xsd

    PropertySchema.xsd    		 Schema and property schema files for the application.
    Orchestration.odx The orchestration used by the application.
    TIBCORendezvousOneWaySend.snk The strong naming key file.

Step 1: Add the adapter to BizTalk Administration

  1. In BizTalk Server Administration, expand BizTalk Group, expand Platform Settings, and then click Adapters.

  2. Right-click Adapters and point to New, Adapter… to display the Adapter Properties dialog.

  3. Enter a value for the Name field. For example, enter TIBCO Rendezvous.

  4. Select TIBCO(r) Rendezvous(r) from the list of adapters available in the Adapter dropdown and click OK.

Step 2: Create a Send Port

  1. In BizTalk Server Administration, expand BizTalk Group, expand Applications, expand BizTalk Application 1, and click Send Ports.

  2. Right-click Send Ports and point to New, Static One-Way Send Port… to display the Send Port Properties dialog.

  3. Enter a value for the Name field, for example TIBCORndOneWaySP.

  4. Select the TIBCO Rendezvous adapter from the list of available adapters in the Type dropdown box and click the Configure button to display the adapter Transport Properties dialog box.

    Note

    This value is the name that was specified when the TIBCO Enterprise Message System adapter was created in the BizTalk Server Administration Console.

  5. Enter values for the Certified Sender Properties:

    Property Value
    Ledger file name Ledger file name to use for persistent certified message delivery.
    Reusable name Reusable correspondent name to use for certified message delivery. The name must be unique among all certified message correspondent names on the network.

  6. Enter values for the Credentials:

    Property Value
    Password The password for the TIBCO Rendezvous server.
    User name The user name for the TIBCO Rendezvous server.

  7. Enter values for the RendezvousTransport:

    Property Value
    Daemon Rendezvous Transport Daemon parameter.
    Network Rendezvous Transport Network parameter.
    Service Rendezvous Transport Service parameter.

    For more information about the properties, see Create the send artifacts.

  8. Click OK.

  9. Select the XML Transmit pipeline from the list of pipelines available in the Send pipeline dropdown and click OK.

  10. Right-click the send port and click Start to enlist and start the send port.

Step 3: Create a receive port

  1. In BizTalk Server Administration, expand BizTalk Group, expand Applications, expand BizTalk Application 1, and click Receive Ports.

  2. Right-click the Receive Ports folder and then click New, One-Way Receive Port... to display the Receive Port Properties dialog.

  3. Enter a value for the Name field, for example TIBCORndOneWayFileRP, and click OK.

Step 4: Create a receive location

  1. Create a folder for the file receive location to monitor, for example C:\Filesource.

  2. Right-click the new receive port and then click New, Receive Location… to display the Receive Location Properties dialog.

  3. Enter a value for the Name field, for example TIBCORndOneWayFileRL.

  4. Select FILE from the list of available adapters in the Type dropdown box and click the Configure button to display the adapter Transport Properties dialog box.

  5. Enter the location of the folder that you created earlier for the Receive Folder property and click OK.

  6. Select XMLReceive from the list of available pipelines in the Receive pipeline dropdown box and click OK.

  7. Right-click the receive location and click Enable.

Step 5: Generate a document instance from the schema

  1. In Visual Studio,right-click Schema.xsd in Solution Explorer, and click Properties.

  2. In the Properties window, click to select the Output Instance Filename option under the General section.

  3. Click the ellipses button (…) to display the Select Output File dialog.

  4. Specify a folder and name for the output file instance, for example C:\instance.xml and click Save.

    Note

    Do not specify the location of the folder that was specified for the file receive location here.

  5. Right-click Schema.xsd in Solution Explorer and click Generate Instance to generate a document instance in the specified location.

Step 6: Update the generated document instance

  1. Open the generated document instance in a text editor(Notepad works), and edit the contents of the document instance to ensure that the data will generate a unique record in the TIBCO system. For example, the follow code shows the first part of the data file:

    <ns0:Root xmlns:ns0="http://TibcoRendezvousOneWaySend.TibcoRendezvousOneWaySendSchema">  
    <Name>Punya Palit</Name>  
    <MailAddress>Prose Ware, Inc.</MailAddress>  
</ns0:Root>

  2. Save the modified document instance.

Step 7: Build and deploy the project

  1. Right-click the OneWaySend project in Solution Explorer and click Properties to launch the Project Designer for the project.

  2. Click the Deployment tab.

  3. Enter the appropriate values for the Server property and the Configuration Database property under BizTalk Group.

  4. Right-click the OneWaySend project in Solution Explorer and click Deploy to build the project and deploy the assembly to the BizTalk Server configuration database.

Step 8: Bind, enlist, and start the orchestration

  1. In BizTalk Server Administration, expand BizTalk Group, expand Applications, expand BizTalk Application 1, and click Orchestrations.

  2. Click the Refresh button in the MMC toolbar or press the F5 key on your keyboard to refresh the BizTalk Server Administration console view.

  3. Double-click the orchestration to display the Orchestration Properties dialog.

  4. Click Bindings in the left pane of the dialog to display the Bindings options for the orchestration.

  5. Specify the appropriate values for the binding options, for example:

    Parameter Value
    Host BizTalkServerApplication
    FileReceivePort TIBCORndOneWayFileRP
    TibcoRendezvousSend TIBCORndOneWaySP

  6. Click OK.

  7. Right-click the orchestration, and click Start to enlist and start the orchestration.

Step 9: Drop a document, and check the TIBCO system

  • Copy the document instance that was created earlier to the file receive folder the application monitors.

  • Use the TIBCO web interface to verify that the record was created from the data in the XML file.

The following sequence of events occurs if the document instance is processed successfully:

  1. The File adapter retrieves the file from the folder and publishes it to the MessageBox as a BizTalk message.

  2. The orchestration subscribes to this published message so the BizTalk Messaging Engine will activate an instance of the orchestration and send the message to the orchestration instance.

  3. The orchestration instance processes the message using the logic specified in the orchestration and publishes the message back to the MessageBox.

  4. The TIBCO send port subscribes to this published message and so the BizTalk Messaging Engine sends the message to the TIBCO send port.

  5. The send port hands the message to the BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous.

  6. The BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous sends the message to the TIBCO system.

See Also

Tutorial: Use the BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous to Receive Data
Tutorials: Using the Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous
Getting Started