| Developer(s) | TIBCO Software |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 8 |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Message-oriented middleware |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.tibco.com |
TIBCO Rendezvous is a software product that provides a message bus for enterprise application integration (EAI).
TIBCO provides messaging APIs in C, C++, Java, Visual BASIC, Perl and .NET to receive data feeds on MS Excel spreadsheets and other applications of choice.
The basic message passing is conceptually simple:
Considerable "Enterprise" functionality is layered onto this if desired with Fault Tolerance/Reliable or Certified options possible, all implemented through the underlying basic messages.
The messages themselves can be viewed as typed name-value fields and/or number-value fields (the two identification mechanisms within a message can mix and match with certain restrictions). A message can itself contain sub-messages which themselves may contain sub-messages, and so on.
The quality of the respective API's implementation varies considerably. The C++ library is simply a wrapper providing an OO view over the C implementation. Likewise the Java and .NET implementations wrap the C++ implementation. This has led to memory management issues with the .NET implementation (though not with the COM Interop version which is considerably more cumbersome).
The TIBCO Messaging Appliance is a hardware-based messaging platform used to accelerate the Rendezvous software. It is based on hardware from Solace Systems, and uses the standard Rendezvous API.[1]