Working with nJAMS Client for BW6

This chapter gives a basic description of how to use nJAMS Client for BW6 with TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.

Tracing

Enable Tracing allows you to monitor more details with regards to a specific activity. You can use nJAMS UI to configure Tracing, e.g.:

Alternatively you can modify nJAMS Client for BW6 properties file <your_appnode>.json in <TIBCO_HOME>/bw/<VERSION>/config/njams and add or update Tracing without using the User Interface. This is an example for enabling Tracing:

">bw65_domain>bw65_appspace>bw65_appnode>tibco.bw.sample.core.soa.CallProcess.application>tibco/bw/sample/core/soa/callprocess/MainProcess>" : {
  "logLevel" : "INFO",
  "exclude" : false,
  "activities" : {
    "ClassificationByGenre" : {
      "tracepoint" : {
        "starttime" : "2018-11-11T08:00:00.000",
        "endtime" : "2018-11-11T09:00:00.000",
        "iterations" : 0,
        "deeptrace" : false
      }
    }
  },
  "recording" : true
}

Note

After modifying nJAMS Client for BW6 properties file, you have to restart BW6 AppNode to make the settings become effective.

Extracts

An Extract is a non-invasive way to add nJAMS events with regards to specific activities. You can use nJAMS UI to configure an Extract:

The following dialog allows you to configure an Extract:

You can also modify nJAMS Client for BW6 properties file <your_appnode>.json in <TIBCO_HOME>/bw/<VERSION>/config/njams and add or update Extracts without using the User Interface.

This is an example for creating an Extract:

"processes" : {
  ">bw65_domain>bw65_appspace>bw65_appnode>tibco.bw.sample.core.soa.CallProcess.application>tibco/bw/sample/core/soa/callprocess/MainProcess>" : {
    "logLevel" : "INFO",
    "exclude" : false,
    "activities" : {
      "ClassificationByGenre" : {
        "extract" : {
          "name" : "ExtractruleType",
          "extractRules" : [ {
            "attribute" : "MovieName",
            "attributeType" : "attribute",
            "ruleType" : "xpath",
            "rule" : "//*:movieName",
            "inout" : "in"
          } ]
        }
      }
    },
    "recording" : true
  }

Note

After modifying nJAMS Client for BW6 properties file, you have to restart BW6 AppNode to make the settings become effective.

Replay

nJAMS Replay extends the capabilities of nJAMS by not only monitoring process executions, but also by restarting process executions. nJAMS Replay allows you to record data of a process execution and replay that process with the same or modified data.

nJAMS Client for BW6 comes with built-in nJAMS Replay capabilities.

In order to make use of nJAMS Replay with nJAMS Client for BW6 you have to enable nJAMS Replay on Client side. In addition, you need nJAMS Replay Server plugin for nJAMS Server.

In nJAMS UI you can triggr a Replay by the following dialog:

To enable nJAMS Replay in nJAMS Client for BW6 you have to set njams.bw6.replayEnabled=true in njams.properties.