TIBCO ActiveSpaces Tutorial: How to Save Data In ActiveSpace from TIBCO BW

TIBCO ActiveSpaces is a TIBCO application that  provides a distributed in-memory data grid for an increase in performance by reducing reliance on costly transactional systems.

TBCO ActiveSpaces is a right choice to use when you have complex environment with a huge flux of data and you have to go for large number of database operations. With use of ActiveSpaces, performance can be increased greatly as in-memory data access is very fast as compared to a disk stored database access.

In this step by step tutorial, I will explain how we can use TIBCO BW Plugin for ActiveSpaces to store data to ActiveSpaces.  You must have ActiveSpaces software and ActiveSpaces Plugin for BW already installed in order to proceed with this tutorial.

Step 1: Create a Metaspace using ActiveSpaces Palette

All the spaces which store in-memory data tuples are contained in a Metaspace.  Once you have TIBCO ActiveSpaces Plugin installed in BW, you can find Metaspace shared resource activity in the ActiveSpaces Palette.

Drag the Metaspaces activity into your project and give it some name as shown below:

add a metaspace to tibco bw project

 

 

Now we need to test connectivity of our metapsace by clicking on Test Connection button. As you can see in the screenshot below, we are connected successfully with metaspace:

tibco metaspace test connection

 

 

Step 2: Add spaces to the Metaspace

Once we have a metaspace created and connectivity tested, we need to add spaces inside metaspace which will be used to store in-memory data tuples. Double click on the metaspace that you created in Step 1 and then add a new space. In this example case, I have added a space with the name TestSpace having two String fields as you can see in the below diagram:

tibco add space to a metaspace

 

In the Key tab, specify a field to be used as a key. In my case, I am using Name as the key:

tibco space specify key

 

Double click on the Space and then add a Space Connection ash shown in the diagram below:

tibco space connection

 

 

Step 3: Create a TIBCO Process to Put Data to ActiveSpaces Space

In this step, we are going to create a designer process where we will use Put activity from the ActiveSpaces palette to store data tuple to in-memory data grid of the space created in the previous step.

In the Configuration tab of Put Activity, choose the Space Connection that was created in the previous step. Configuration will look like below:

tibco activespaces put configuration

 

In the Input Tab of Put activity, we need to specify the input values for the tuple. In this case, I am hard  coding the values for this tuple as shown in the below screenshot:

activespace tuple input for put activity

 

Step 4: Test TIBCO ActiveSpaces Put Process Using Designer Tester

Our configuration and process development to test ActiveSpaces Put operation is now ready. We can now proceed towards the testing part for this simple process. Load the process in designer tester and run it.

As you can see in the below screenshot, process has run successfully and the tuple has been added to the space:

tibco activespace test put process in designer

 

 

Now, go to ActiveSpace Monitoring and Management and there you can see that the tuple has been added to the space as you can see in the screenshot below:

tibco activespaces monitoring and management

 

 

Ajmal Abbasi

Ajmal Hussain Abbasi is Integration Consultant By Profession with 13+ years experience in Integration domain mainly with TIBCO products. He has extensive practical knowledge of TIBCO Business Works, TIBCO Cloud, TIBCO Flogo, TIBCO Mashery, TIBCO Spotfire, EMS and TIBCO ActiveSpaces. He has worked on a number of highly critical integration projects in various sectors by using his skills in TIBCO Flogo, TIBCO API Management (Mashery), TCI, Tibco Designer, TIBCO Business Studio, Adapters, TIBCO EMS, RV, Administrator, TIBCO BE, TIBCO ActiveSpaces etc. Ajmal Abbasi has experience with MuleSoft ESB as well. Ajmal Abbasi is also experienced in the area of API Management particularly with WSO2 API management platforms. Ajmal Abbasi is also experienced in developing solutions using Core Java and J2EE Technologies. You can contact Ajmal Abbasi for Consultancy, Technical Assistance and Technical Discussions.

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5 thoughts on “TIBCO ActiveSpaces Tutorial: How to Save Data In ActiveSpace from TIBCO BW

  1. Pingback: TIBCO Activespaces Get Tutorial: How to Get Data from Activespaces in BW Process | Tibco Guide

  2. Hari Iyer

    Hi ,

    I Am Getting an error after testing the Put process definition:-

    BW-AS-100001 Job-10000 Error in [Add_Tuple_To_AS.process/Put]
    com.tibco.as.space.ASException: SYS_ERROR (metaspace_already_exists – name=####)
    caused by: com.tibco.as.space.ASException: com.tibco.as.space.ASException: SYS_ERROR (metaspace_already_exists – name=####)
    Caused by: com.tibco.as.space.ASException: SYS_ERROR (metaspace_already_exists – name=####)

    Reply
  3. Alam

    Disconnect from metaspace and connect again, post that your transaction should go…

    Thanks,
    Alam

    Reply
  4. shaan

    could anybody tell me how do we configure the url for the active space monitoring and management.

    Reply

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