TIBCO Adapters are used as a bridge between other applications and TIBCO Integration environment for exchange of data between them. There are four TIBCO Adapter Service Types available which you can configure for your adapter application:

1. Publication Service
2. Subscription Service
3. Request-Response Service
4. Request-Response Invocation Service

Tibco Adapter Publication Service

Adapter publication service is used to publish any event in a vendor application to TIBCO Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to make it available to interested TIBCO applications or processes. For example, you can configure adapter publication service which will be used to publish a message to ESB every time there is an update in a database table. TIBCO Adapter Publication Service works in asynchronous mode. You can get a more insight into TIBCO Adapter Publication service by going through Tibco Database Adapter: Step By Step Tutorial

Tibco Adapter Subscription Service

Adapter Subscription service works opposite to what publication service does. Subscription service is used to subscribe to some event or action in TIBCO environment and makes it available to some external application. For example, you can write a subscription service which will intimate an external application (e.g. Oracle database), every time there is a new HTTP request received in a TIBCO process.

Just like adapter publication service, subscription service also works in asynchronous mode.

Tibco Adapter Request-Response Service

Adapter Request-Response service has same functionality as a subscription service with the only difference that it works in synchronous mode. Requests are initiated from TIBCO environment and some other application acts as the message target. In this synchronous communication model, target application sends back a response to the initiator (TIBCO environment).

Tibco Adapter Request-Response Invocation Service

Adapter Request-Response Invocation service has same functionality as Request-Response service with the only difference that target and initiators are reversed. In this type of service, vendor application serves as the initiator and TIBCO environment behaves as target. This type of communication is synchronous as TIBCO environment sends back response synchronously to vendor application for every request.

Below chart will help you to understand more about TIBCO Adapter service types and their working.

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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