Author Archives: Ajmal Abbasi

About 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.

Logging in TIBCO BW Solutions—Best Practices

Recording the transactions details like inputs, outputs, processing details etc. and errors/exceptions information for any transactions flowing through a system is known as logging. For any solution of medium to complex level; logging plays a significant role for operational excellence, transactions tracking, issues fixing and performance analysis. Like any solution developed in any programming language;… Read More »

How to Create MD5 Encrypted Password for Tomcat Users

While setting up TIBCO HAWK web console, authentication type can be chosen as FILE, DATABASE or LDAP to authenticate the users from a file, database or from Active directory respectively. For FILE authentication type; users are saved in hawk_users.xml file while in case of DATABASE authentication type; users credentials are stored in a database table… Read More »

TIBCO BW & EMS Interview Questions for Experienced and Beginners

I wrote several posts on TIBCO BW, EMS, Admin, Hawk, BE interview questions by focusing mainly on the beginners. Here I am posting TIBCO BW and EMS interview questions (Advanced) in the form of a video for experienced as well as beginners.

Implementing Retry Mechanism in TIBCO BW Projects

What will you do if you get an error/exception in one of the processes involved in processing some order/transaction which got initiated from some upstream system and involves multiple systems/applications? Suppose, the processing failed at some intermediate point while interaction with multiple systems or applications was already completed before. For example; if your TIBCO solution… Read More »

TIBCO EMS Durable Subscription for Topic Messages Persistence

When using EMS topic based communication; by default, if a message is published to a topic and one or more subscribers to that topic are currently offline (not active); they won’t receive the message as message won’t persist in the EMS Server. However, If persistence of messages published to a topic is required; TIBCO EMS… Read More »

TIBCO BW Project Effort Estimation Key Considerations

Just like any software development project; TIBCO BW based integration projects also require a great focus and plenty of key considerations while estimating design and development effort involved. In this TIBCO BW Project Effort Estimation article; I am going to talk about some of the key points as well as some valuable tips for TIBCO… Read More »

TIBCO BW: Important Considerations About Using External Java Code using Java Palette

TIBCO BW provides options of utilizing code written in java to develop integration solutions by making use of Java Palette activities. However, the question rises that when and why TIBCO BW Java Palette activities should be used on top of the standard Palette activities provided by TIBCO BW?

Step By Step Tutorial: Call Oracle API from Java Code

While working on software development projects; there can be scenarios where you need to call Oracle API’s from Java code. In this step by step tutorial; I will explain how we can call Oracle Stored Procedure from Java Code.

TIBCO BW Performance Monitoring Using JConsole

Performance monitoring of TIBCO BW based applications is an important task in any organization to ensure that memory, CPU and other resources are used efficiently and to identify or detect any abnormal behaviours in the developed solutions to take any corrective or pre-emptive measures before the real catastrophic situations. There are different ways and different… Read More »

TIBCO EMS Routing Step By Step Example

In enterprise architecture; there can be two or more EMS Servers being used for different application systems which may sometimes require some data communication between each other. To enable transfer of EMS messages between two or more EMS Servers; TIBCO EMS provides routing feature so that messages may be routed from one server to one… Read More »