Top Most List of Tibco RV, EMS Tutorials , Tips from Javarevisited

Hi guys , just thought about some more topics to explain on this tibco tutorial series , let me know out of below which Tibco topics you would like to me cover first , please suggest if you have other topics in mind. I am now updating this post as most of the topics are already covered but I forgot to update this post.

1. Difference between RVD and RVRD.

I have covered difference between routing daemon and Tibco daemon in this part. basically main difference between both of them is the purpose. RVD is mainly for sending and receiving message in same network between two Tibco RV publisher and subscriber while RVRD is used to bridge two different network from two different countries, cities or even continent. Most of the investment banks has RVRD bridging there London to New-york traffic or London to Tokyo traffic. Bandwidth of these WAN networks are very important because if  you have just one slow Tibco subscriber that can bring down whole network link between two regions. We had an incident when one of out application is publishing huge amount of updates in MB and on other side we had a GUI on a slow desktop which is keep asking for resend, this problem is often referred as Tibco RV storm and its very serious issue while working with Tibco messaging. One important thing to note here is reliability parameter of tibco rv which actually defines how long publisher should hold the message if set very low can cause frequent retransmission request.

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Top Most Tibco tutorial : Certified Messagging

This is in continuation of my previous tibco tutorial. tibco rv is most widely used middleware in enterprise world heavily used in banking and many global investment bank rely on tibco rv for there high speed messaging requirement. its used by many trading application to receive high speed data e.g. Market data. in reliable mode tibco provide reliable delivery of data but not guaranteed means if sender sends data to receiver via tibco multicast network , tibco tries best to deliver that data to receiver but there is no guarantee, data could be lost if receiver is too busy to receive it , if receiver is not running or receiver is hang. In some cases its possible to recover lost data by sending "Resend Request".

Resend Request is request which Receiver sends to Sender to resend lost data. if Sender has that data into memory it will resend but if it has already discarded then no way to recover that data and tibco will issue DATALOSS Advisory. Sender will only keep data defined in "reliability" parameter while starting tibco daemon and it normally ranges from 10-12 seconds.

Since reliable is good for high speed messaging where data becomes stale after few seconds and loss of some data didn't matter much e.g. in case of Market data where prices , quantity keeps changing.

But if you require guaranteed delivery where you don't want to lose any message you should consider option other that reliable messaging. tibco provides a solution for this called "Certified messaging".

In Certified messaging , delivery of data or message is guaranteed at tibco level and this is very useful for sending orders, executions , booking message etc where you can not afford to lose any message.

How does Certified messaging works ?
Certified messaging works on registration and acknowledgment principle. In this case we have Certified Sender and Certified Receiver , whenever Receiver comes up it registers with Sender by subscribe on a topic and providing its "name" , this name must be different in a single network for every certified sender or receiver.

For every message Sender waits for acknowledgment from receiver and it will only remove message once it gets acks from all Sender , if any of receiver doesn't sends ack it keep message in a ledger. ledger could be memory based (default) or file based. choosing ledger is critical because if you are keeping too many message you can easily ran out of memory in case of memory based ledger, you can use file based ledger in those cases.

Sender does have option to remove receiver from its list of certified listener , if receiver is not responding message for specified duration of time.

Preregistration can also be possible where Sender has list of certified listener , pre configured in its config file , so it will store message until those listener comes up and start consuming messages, this is useful if sender and receiver are in two different timezone e.g. US and Asia and comes up at different time.

in case of file based ledgers , there are chances of ledger corruption but tibco provides certain tools to check file ledgers , also if you have failover capability in your application you may want to keep this ledger in a shared location preferably in SAN disk , so in case of primary goes down Secondary can still access ledger file.

this is all about tibco certified messaging you can read more on documentation comes along with tibco installation.

let me know if you like these kind of "tibco tutorial" or any topic which you want me to cover , any feedback to improve tibco tutorial series

also any questions, queries , doubt is welcome I would be happy to answer them.

if you haven't read my previous tibco tutorials here is link

tibco tutorial part 1
tibco tutorial part 2
tibco tutorial part 3
tibco tutorial part 4

Related post:

What is ledger file in Tibco Certified messaging
What is Tibco Rendezvous messaging
Top 10 Tibco Rendezvous tips and commands

Tibco Tutorial for beginners
What is Tibco Hawk
What is Dataloss advisory in Tibco Rendezvous
Tibco Rendezvous and Tibco EMS Interview questions

Top Most Top 20 Tibco Rendezvous and EMS Interview questions and answers

Hi Guys, in this part of my Tibco Rendezvous tutorial series I am sharing some Tibco RV interview questions and answers most often asked in any TIBCO messaging interviews. These are based on fundamental TIBCO concepts and also offer some new way of learning TIBCO RV or TIBCO Rendezvous technology. Some of the TIBCO Interview questions I have already discussed in my TIBCO command series.

TIBCO Rendezvous Interview Questions

Here is the list of TIBCO interview question, I am not putting answer for these interview questions right now but will put together in some other post but these questions are really great in terms of any Tibco messaging interview. For better organization and quick access I will divide TIBCO Interview questions on various category e.g. TIBCO Rendezvous Interview questions, TIBCO EMS Interview questions, TIBCO Certified Messaging questions, TIBCO Hawk Interview questions and Miscellaneous TIBCO Interview questions. Please let me know if you want some more categories. Answers of these Tibco Interview questions can be found in different tutorials available in my blog; I will also try to post relevant links here.

This article is in continuation of my interview articles 10 Interview questions on Singleton Pattern in Java , Top 20 FIX Protocol Interview questions and Top 20 Core Java interview questions asked in Investment banks and Top 10 Java Serialization Interview questions

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Top Most Tibco tutorial : RVD (Rendezeous daemon) vs RVRD (Rendezeous Routig Daemon)

RVD (Rendezvous daemon) vs RVRD (Rendezvous Routing Daemon)
RVRD (Rendezvous Routing Daemon) are simply process owned by middleware or network teams which listens multicast traffic locally and transmit it to another RVRD counter part (another host) using TCP. This remote host than re multicast this traffic to there own network. So essentially it used to bridge two different regional network e.g. London and Newyork etc.

RVRD is multicast in one end and unicast on other end so it receives messages from multiple RVD (Rendezvous Daemon) and send via TCP to another RVRD which distributes messages on different RVD (Rendezvous Daemon) on there own network e.g. say on NY network.

Control of RVRD (Rendezvous Routing Daemon) resides on middleware/network team and they decide which topics/subject is allowed for RVRD (Rendezvous Routing Daemon)  traffic. So if you send message on a topic which is not configured on RVRD and subscriber for that service is on some another physical network it will not receive those messages until that topic is enabled on RVRD (Rendezvous Routing Daemon) front.

On the other hand RVD (Rendezvous Daemon) is a background process runs on every host which wants to send or receive message from tibco multicast network. Your process depends upon this for reliable and efficient network communication. all messages goes via rvd before it enters or leaves host on a multicast network and RVD (Rendezvous Daemon) is responsible for creating packets or assembling packets to and from the network.

On points
-- RVD transmit outbound message from your program to network.
-- RVD delivers inbound message from network to your process.
-- RVD takes care of Operating system specifics and encapsulates those leaving your process independent of such low level details.
-- RVD daemon can be start automatically if its not running already ,may exit after some specified period of inactivity.

Top Most Tibco tutorial : Http Interface of Tibco RV

This is another post of my tibco tutorial series , if you want to read more about tibco rv or tibco ems please read there. in this post I am sharing you great tool to solve tibco rv related problems and a great interface to anaylze your Tibco RVD activities. until i know this I mostly used netstat command to figure out which topics are subscribed by my tibco RVD but after since I know about this I had helped me a lot.

Every host where tibco rvd is running expose on HTTP interface using that we can get many useful information e.g

--- How many clients are connecting to a particular service

--- Which services has been subscribed by rvd

--- Which hosts are connected to this rvd (using remote daemon).

--- How much data has been sent to received

--- Viewing tibco log to figure out any tibco issue.

--- Hwo many subject a particular service is using and what are those etc.

to check on which Http port your rvd is publishing information do this in your linux/windows host where rvd is running

ps -ef | grep rvd

this will show rvd process with parameters used for starting "-http 7582" shows that http interface is on port 7582

now just type this in your browser.

http://hostname:7582/

and you can see tibco webpage. I found it most useful tool while troubleshooting tibco rv issue.

to read more about tibco rv or tibco ems  see my tibco tutorial series

Top Most TIBCO Ledger file in Certified messaging : TIBCO Tutorial

TIBCO Ledger files in certified messaging
This is in continuation to my previous article on TIBCO Certified messaging, in this TIBCO tutorial we will discuss about what is TIBCO ledger? What is process based ledger and what is file based ledger?  Which messages are stored in TIBCO ledger? What are advantage and disadvantage of using TIBCO ledger? When should we use Process based and File based ledger etc. if you would like to read my earlier TIBCO Tutorial please see.

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Top Most Tibco tutorial : Tibrv Errors and Exceptions

While working with tibco rv during many years I found that tibco errors are mysteriously difficult to diagnose for a newcomer and minor difference between syntax and semantics along with network specifics lead some strange error.
here I am putting most common error which I have faced mainly because of some silly mistake in syntax and spent hours to figure out exact cause during my initial days.

This list is by no means complete and I would encourage to put any other error you have encountered to make this list more useful.

any suggestion, input feedback always welcome.

1) Error: Failed to initialize transport: Could not resolve network specification

This error comes when your rvd tries to creates tibco transport and failed to created it , it could come in your Java program which is trying to establish tibco transport or while using tibrvsend or tibrvlisten command . recently I have encountered when I am trying to listen on a particular topic (subject) by using tibrvlisten command in my windows machine.

C:\>tibrvlisten -service "5420" -network "190.231.54.20" -daemon "tcp:7500"  TEST.REPLY

Cause: It was not working because of missing ";" before network value , when I modified network string as below it working.

C:\>tibrvlisten -service "5420" -network ";190.231.54.20" -daemon "tcp:7500"  TEST.REPLY

2) Not able to receive message between two host .
This is another classic error which I have faced many times , it always look something is wrong on my side but many times it comesbecause of network filtering where they allow/disallow passing message between two based on service or topic.

generally prod and non production servers reside on different multicast network so if a configuration working for non production it may not work on production environment if network is different. you will have to change the network parameter and use the one which is assigned for production.

3) Failed to initialize transport: Arguments conflict
Another classic error which has manifests itself in different form and can magically puzzle you but I have already said looking and focusing on error message is most important point, here its simply trying to say I am trying to create tibco rvd transport for your but the arguments (which could be either service, network or daemon) is conflicting with something already running on that box, service or network.

I have recently faced issue with two different reason let's see where are those.

C:\>tibrvlisten -service "5420" -network ";190.231.54.20" -daemon "tcp:7500"  TEST.REPLY
tibrvlisten: Failed to initialize transport: Arguments conflict

Here I was trying to listen on above tibco transport but it always failing later I discovered that service "5420" was already bounded to some other network "";200.231.54.20" and some other process was already using that. when I shutdown the process and restart my tibrvlisten it started working.

Cause: If a service is already bounded to a network , trying to bound with another network will fail.

The reason for this failure is that since rvd associates the port , specified by service number with the interface/address specified by the network parameter and hence not able to associate two or more networks/interfaces with same UDP port (remember service denotes UDP port)

Second time also manifestation was same but actual cause was not with the service name but was with the network interface.

I was again trying to listen this time using remote daemon

C:\>tibrvlisten -service "5420" -network ";190.231.54.20" -daemon "tcp:10.230.23.65:7500"  TEST.REPLY
tibrvlisten: Failed to initialize transport: Arguments conflict

Cause :Here on host 10.230.23.65 we had two NIC (Network Interface Card) and this network "190.231.54.20" was already bound to NIC card "eth1" and here I am trying to binding this with eth0 (default one) and due to this it was failing.

Solution : when I changed the command to use "eth1" it started working.
C:\>tibrvlisten -service "5420" -network "eth1;190.231.54.20" -daemon "tcp:10.230.23.65:7500"  TEST.REPLY
tibrvlisten: Listening to subject TEST.REPLY

Conclusion: you can not associate same service with two different network or same network with two different NIC cards.

4)TibrvException[error=67,message=Socket limit reached]
at com.tibco.tibrv.TibrvImplTPortC.natCreate(Native Method)
at com.tibco.tibrv.TibrvImplTPortC.create(TibrvImplTP ortC.java:40)
at com.tibco.tibrv.TibrvRvdTransport.init(TibrvRvdTra nsport.java:77

Cause: your rvd (Rendezvous daemon) is creating so many tibco transport that eventually it exhausts Socket limit available for any process in windows.

Diagnosis: to find out the culprit you need to find out on which process is creating so many transport first.

netstat -nap | grep "processid | wc -l

run this multiple time with different suspected process to identify the process which is culprit.

Now if your process is publishing/subscribing on multiple service you need to find on which service this is happening to find out use netstat command again with different service your process is using.

netstat -a | grep "service"  | wc -l

Now you know exact culprit process id and service , first stop the process and figure out why exactly so many transports are getting created.

5) Name collision on Certified messaging.
You can not have two  connection with same name if you are using Certified messaging. you will get below error.
ADV_CLASS=ERROR ADV_SOURCE=RVCM ADV_NAME=REGISTRATION.COLLSION.NAME.TestClient

it means some one has alrady registered with name "TestClient" in this certified transport.
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6)  Exception while confirming message in tibco rv certified messaging.

TibrvException[error=27,message=Not permitted]
  

This error comes if you try to confirm the message two times.

to read more about tibco rv or tibco ems  see my tibco tutorial series

Top Most Tibco tutorial : Reliability Parameter Explained

Reliability parameter is one of the important stat up parameter we provide to tibco rvd and incorrect setting up of this parameter can screw up things in big way. When I wrote Tibco Tutorials for beginners I thought to explain some individual concept on separate tutorials and this article is part of it. Tibco messaging is one of the most used messaging solution on Investment banks over the years and will continue for coming years.

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Top Most Tibco Tutorials for beginners

This Tibco Tutorial is collection of all my previous Tibco rendezvous and Tibco EMS tutorials. I have written this compilation post to provide all tibco tutorials at one place for easy navigation and access. Anyone who is started working on Tibco on any investment bank or brokerage house for there electronic trading systems or algorithmic trading system can benefit from these tibco tutorials because these are based on my experience in stock trading systems which uses Tibco Rendezvous for all there Front-End backend communication. Tibco Certified messaging is used by Electronic trading system or Order Management system to receive orders and Send Execution in FIX Protocol.

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Top Most Introduction to Tibco Hawk as Tibco Tutorial

Tibco Hawk
This is another short  TIBCO tutorial from my TIBCO tutorial series. in this i am gonna discuss what is TIBCO hawk , Where do we use TIBCO hawk , What are components of TIBCO hawk , what benefit TIBCO hawk offers and how Tibco hawk works.  if you are interested to know more about TIBCO  Rendezvous , TIBCO EMS and there fundamental concept  or if you are looking for some TIBCO Interview questions you may find this link interesting TIBCO Tutorial

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Top Most Tibco tutorial : Tibco RV tips and commands

This is third post on series of "tibco tutorial" , In this article I am posting some of the most useful command which I used while working in tibco rv in many application , they are extremely useful and must be in developers top of head who is working in tibco rv.

Before writing these "tibco tutorial" series I looked for some introductory simple tibco tutorial which explaines concept of tibco rv in simple word and give us working knowledge of tibco but I did not found any. tibco is most heavily used middleware solution on enterprise world and form backbone of many large enterprise including global banks.

these are few tips/commands/concept which essential while working with tibco rv  for resolving day to day problems or issues.

How to send message from command prompt using tibrvsend ?
tibrvsend -network "190.231.54.20" -service "5420" -daemon "tcp:7500" "TESTING”



How to receive message in command prompt using tibrvlisten ?
tibrvlisten -network "190.231.54.20" -service "5420" -daemon "tcp:7500" 


How do you identify whether tibco rv  is running in your host or not ?
ps –ef | grep rvd (in linux) , for windows check rvd in task manager. ,if tibco rv is running then rvd must be a live process.


How do you identify which services are subscribed from localhost ?
netstat –g

How do you identify which services and clients are connected to your host via tibco rv ?
We can use tibco rv  admin webpage , which listens on some predefined port e.g. 7542 http://host:7540 and then we can get all the details


Can we specify which NIC card to use while specifying network parameter
Yes , we can specify e.g. eth1;190.230.54.80 , if don’t give any NIC card name then it will bind to default eth0 card.


What will happen if same service e.g. 5480 tries to register with two network e.g. 190.230 and 192.230 ?
Tibco RV  will not allow that , it will throw exception while creating transport you can see that exception in tibco rv log via webpage.


What is the standard location for applications using TIBCO RV (Rendezvous)?
The latest TIBCO RV libraries will always be available through the following location:
• /opt/tibops/rv/lib
Previous versions of the libraries can be access through:
• /opt/tibops/RV//lib


How to change reliablity parameter ?
This is a startup parameter , you can see it by greping in ps –ef | grep rvd, for chaning it you need to disconnect all the application connected to that RVD and restart that


if you have not read my previous "tibco tutorial" series , here are  links

tibco tutorial part 1
tibco tutorial part 2
tibco tutorial part 3
tibco tutorial part 4








Please provide your feedback on these tibco tutorial , whether you are liking it or not , how can we improve it, what sort of information you are looking for.


Please post any question , doubt related to tibco rv in comment and I will try my best to answer those.



to understand more about tibco rv or tibco ems  see my tibco tutorial series

Top Most Tibco Tutorial: Fundamentals of Tibco RV messagging.

This is in continuation of my  tibco tutorial series where I will discuss tibco rv on application developer point of view as middle ware or messaging solution.

As discussed in earlier tibco tutorials, tibco is used for communicating between two systems e.g. client and server or server to server , here we will see some of the basic terms used in tibco rv  world.b

Main purpose of these tibco tutorials is to give overview of fundamentals of tibco rv with day to day examples and discuss its usage. I have been using tibco for more than 3 years and have used in my various project where I use tibco reliable messagging , tibco certified messagging for both client to server and server to server communication.

"tibrvsend" and "tibrvlisten" these are two utility comes with every tibco installation. One can used to send message on any multicast network while other can be used to receive message on any multicast network.

Here is an example of sending and receiving message in tibco multicast network.

tibrvsend -network "190.231.54.20" -service "5420" -daemon "tcp:7500" "TESTING”

tibrvlisten -network "190.231.54.20" -service "5420" -daemon "tcp:7500"


So here we see three new things network, service and daemon

Network
------------
This is the multicast network on which message will travel here it is "190.231.54.20"
It could be any IP  address which is setup on your network router. If your computer has multiple NIC (network interface card) then eth0 or eth1 could be prefixed in network e.g.'
"eth0; 190.231.54.20"

normally different NIC card is used for different network speed e.g. eth0 could be a Gigabyte network or eth1 could be for Megabyte network.


Service
----------
This is the UDP port on which tibco rv sends message, its advised to keep last two digit of network as service e.g. here 54.20 is used as service "5420".
important point to note is "one service can be bound to only one network in one machine" e.g. here service "5420" is bound to network "190.231.54.20" if you try to bound it to another network "192.231.54.20" , tibco will throw error "Transport initialization failed".
This problem generally occurs when you are subscribing many networks in one machine.

Daemon
------------
This is the tcp port on which application communicates to rvd (rendezvous daemon), by convention its tcp:7500 but it could be anything as long as it’s not conflicting with others.

there is one more concept called "remote daemon" where tibco used daemon of different machine to communicate with multicast network it looks like "host:7500" where host is remote host , its not advised to used remote daemon , I will discuss this on a separate post.

rvd
------
I have referred it many times but not yet explained, it’s a program we called rendezvous daemon which is required for tibco messaging, if it’s not running on your machine you can not send/receive message in a multicast network. if its not running then application generally starts it but its a good practice to start rvd in permanent account. It is this process will handle everything from sending message to receiving message in tibco multicast network.

remote daemon
------------------
Some time instead of using local daemon ( rvd installed on local computer) we use RVD (Randezeous daemon)  installed on some other remote host . this is called using remote daemon. so that remote daemon connects to our process via TCP and connect to tibco multicast network via UDP. see here how to use remote daemon.

C:\>tibrvlisten -service "5420" -network ";190.231.54.20" -daemon "tcp:remotehost:7500"  TEST.REPLY

here we are connecting RVD (Randezeous daemon)  running on host "remotehost"

this technique is useful if you don't have RVD (Randezeous daemon) installed in your host or your process is running on some virtual host which is not ideal for tibco installation.

reliable communication
----------------------------
reliable communication is what Tibco RV by defaults provide where RVD makes every effort to deliver the message to Receiver but delivery is not guaranteed, this is useful in case of high speed messaging where data becomes stale after few seconds and missing data can be tolerable .  for guaranteed deliver Tibco provides Certified Messagging.

Hope this would be helpful.

If you have not read my other blogs on my "tibco tutorial"  series here are the links :

tibco tutorial part 1
tibco tutorial part 2
tibco tutorial part 3
tibco tutorial part 4


Please let me know if you like this kind of tibco tutorial , if you have any doubt , questions related to tibco rv please post those as comment and i will try my best to answer those .

If you would like to discuss any tibco topic , Please suggest I would be happy to write tibco tutorial on those.

to learn more about tibco rv or tibco ems  see my tibco tutorial series

Related post:

What is Certified or Guaranteed messaging in Tibco RV
Difference between RVD and RVRD in Tibco

Difference between Tibco EMS and Tibco Rendezvous

Tibco Tutorial for beginners
What is Tibco Hawk
Tibco Rendezvous and Tibco EMS Interview questions

Top Most TIBCO Tutorial : TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO RV messaging

TIBCO Tutorial:  TIBCO RV messaging
When I started working with a big investment bank I come across a new messaging technology called TIBCO Rendezvous or commonly called as TIBCO RV, I have heard Java Messaging Service (JMS) before but never heard about this TIBCO Rendezvous and it was so extensively used in my application that most of support issue was caused by this mysterious TIBCO RV. We had several TIBCO Topics also called TIBCO Subject separate for both Production and Non PRODUCTION environment but still since I don’t had basic knowledge of this technology I was afraid to do some experiment because there was always a risk to affect production environment.
At that time I have searched for TIBCO tutorial and I didn't find anything which can help an application developer who wants to use TIBCO as middleware solution, so I decided to write my own experience in a form of short , concise and clear  TIBCO tutorial  Every post of this series will have something to offer in a short and clear format which I like and I hope you too for details you can always refer to TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO EMS specification or documentation .

Today I am going to share some of my experience while working with TIBCO RV , this is standard product used in most of the global banks for messaging, its great product which offers following benefits:

• ·          location transparency
• ·          platform independence
• ·          reliable and fast
• ·          comprehensive API
• ·          Point to point delivery and publish/subscribe delivery.

Location transparency
Location transparency means for sending and receiving message on a multicast network you need not to aware of physical location of sender or receiver as long as you know the topic (also called subject in TIBCO world), so its pretty simple Sender publish message on multicast topic in a network and all subscriber which have subscribed on that topic receives message without being knowing physical location of publisher.

Sender could be anywhere in the world e.g. New York, Tokyo, London, receiver can be anywhere e.g. London, Hong Kong or Tokyo.


Platform independence
TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO RV doesn't depend on platform, Sender can be running on UNIX box while receiver could be running on windows machine. Most of the time GUI runs on windows and server runs on Linux and they exchange messages via TIBCO.


Reliable and Fast
TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO RV makes best effort but not guaranteed to deliver message to receiver and it’s very fast since it’s operate on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) also.  TIBCO RV is best suited for transmitting data which is going to be stale in few minutes and has very high volume e.g. Market data etc but not used for sending Order or execution message because there is always chance of loosing those messages which could create financial impact.
TIBCO Rendezvous provides another solution for guaranteed message delivery known as TIBCO Certified messaging so normally application uses certified messaging to make guaranteed delivery sensitive data e.g. Order, Trade or Booking messages.


Comprehensive API
TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO RV comes along with rich API in both C++ and Java languages and can be plugged into application easily, TIBCO RV API provides interfaces and classes for different modes of communication e.g. Point to Point, publish/subscribe, certified messaging etc.

Point to Point Delivery
TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO RV  can be used for point-2-point delivery (some times also called Request/Reply mode), it used "INBOX" topic for doing so , when rvd (rendezvous daemon) sees INBOX topic instead of publishing that message into multicast network it makes direct connection to destination host and send that  message over TCP/IP.

Publish/Subscribe
TIBCO Rendezvous or TIBCO RV provides essential messaging functionality e.g. both Point to Point also called P2P and publish/subscribe. In PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE mode there could be one sender and multiple receiver which subscribe on a TIBCO Topic also called as Subject. TIBCO RV receiver subscribes on multicast network on a particular topic and Sender sends message on that Topic, after that its TIBCO RVD responsibility to deliver those message. Communication between application process and TIBCO RVD is happens on TCP while communication between TIBCO RVD and multicast network happens on UDP protocol and that’s why TIBCO Rendezvous messaging or TIBCO RV is very fast.

Hope this would be useful, I will write some more post to explain things little more till then happy learning :)

As promised here are links for my other "TIBCO tutorial" articles

TIBCO tutorial part 1
TIBCO tutorial part 2
TIBCO tutorial part 3
TIBCO tutorial part 4

Please let me know if you have any doubt or question related to TIBCO or do you want me to cover any specific topic on TIBCO.

To read more about TIBCO RV or TIBCO EMS see my TIBCO tutorial series

Related post:

What is Certified or Guaranteed messaging in Tibco RV
Difference between RVD and RVRD in Tibco

Difference between Tibco EMS and Tibco Rendezvous
Top 10 Tibco Rendezvous tips and commands

Tibco Tutorial for beginners
How to deal with TibRv Errors and Exceptions
Tibco Rendezvous and Tibco EMS Interview questions

Top Most Understanding DATALOSS Advisory in Tibco Rendezvous or Tibco RV

Understanding DATALOSS Advisory in Tibco Rendezvous

While working with TIBCO rendezvous you guys must have been faced problem of DATALOSS and might be aware of its severe consequences and in worst case how it can cause TIBCO Storm (A situation where TIBCO publisher bombards network with publishing so many messages and exhaust all network bandwidth of WAN links resulting in complete breakdown of network lines and communication). 

This Tibco Tutorial is in continuation of my Tibco Tutorial series and in this short TIBCO tutorial I will explain what is DATALOSS in Tibco and How we can minimize or prevent DATALOSS in Tibco RV.

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Top Most Tibco tutorial : Difference between Tibco EMS and Tibco RV

Both of them are product from Tibco and used extensively across global investment banks for front end to back end communication or server to server communication. though they have difference in the manner they have designed and the specification they are based upon .

Tibco RV stands for Tibco Rendezvous which is based on proprietary tibco protocol (TRDP/PGM) developed by company. They have provided API in almost all major programming language and this is a preferred choice if you need high speed communication e.g. publishing market data updates etc. 

Most of the  stock trading application either equities or futures/options they are heavily relied on market data which they receive from various market data publishers e.g. Reuters , Bloom berg or Wombat but sometime format of market data is not something every application can directly consume so they have internal application which receives this stock prices and covert them into a format which every application can understand and here they publish market data in a tibco multicast topic say MARKETDATA.TSE.UPDATE and all application which needs can subscribe to this.

While Tibco EMS stands for Tibco Enterprise Messaging service and is based upon JMS specification which is provided by Sun MicroSystem. though other JMS implementation also available e.g. MQ Series

Tibco EMS is preferred choice for more reliable communication e.g. for sending and receiving Order and Execution data.

Today almost all the stock trading happens electronically and here its most important requirement is not to loose any order or execution received from either client or exchange , so all sell side firm which provides these trading application and infrastructure rely on tibco for such kind of needs. Tibco EMS cater this requirement by providing durable tibco topic which holds the data until every subscriber consumes it and also guarantees data shouldn't lost during network transmission.

Tibco RV do provide guaranteed communication via Tibco Certified messaging and which is used to send/receive  sensitive information e.g. Order , execution or booking related data if you are using Tibco RV infrastructure since in this case you can't afford data loss which is bound to occur in case of Tibco RV.

Important part of Tibco RV infrastructure are

Rendezvous Daemon (RVD): most important part application connects to rvd daemon over TCP protocol which in tern responsible for efficient messaging over the network using TRDP/PGM multicast/broadcast transport with subject based filtering.

Rendezvous Routing Daemon (RVRD): It is used to bridge two regional network say Tokyo and London or London and New york Implements point-to-point (TCP) routing of messages with subject-based filtering across different multicast networks and also handles the RVD functionality on the local network.

to summarize

I could outline following difference between Tibco RV and Tibco EMS based upon my experience :

1) Tibco RV is proffered choice for high speed messaging e..g publish of market data etc while Tibco EMS which is based upon JMS implementation is mostly used for more reliable messaging e.g. Order and trade and mostly work on acknowledgment .

2) Also topic and queue created on Tibco EMS are static in nature and they get created on Tibco EMS Server while Subject of Tibco RV is dynamic in nature.

3) Tibco RV works on Bus model every node connected to bus have RVD running so no single point of failure if one node goes down other can still communicate with each other while in case of Tibco EMS work on Hub and Spoke model where  Tibco EMS Server is Single Point of failure because all topics and queues were created on this and publisher and subscriber connects to it , so if it went down all traffic will be stopped , though Tibco EMS Server could have another failover instance which can become primary in case required.

to read more about tibco rv or tibco ems  see my tibco tutorial series

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