Introduction To Tibco EMS

JMS supports these messaging models:

Point-to-point(Queues)
Publish and Subscribe(Topics)
Multicast(Topics)
Point-to-Point
Point-to-point messaging has one producer and one consumer per message. This style of
messaging uses a queue to store messages until they are received. The message producer
sends the message to the queue; the message consumer retrieves messages from the
queue and sends acknowledgement that the message was received.
More than one producer can send messages to the same queue, and more than one
consumer can retrieve messages from the same queue. The queue can be configured to be
exclusive, if desired. If the queue is exclusive, then all queue messages can only be
retrieved by the first consumer specified for the queue. Exclusive queues are useful when
you want only one application to receive messages for a specific queue. If the queue is
not exclusive, any number of receivers can retrieve messages from the queue. Nonexclusive queues are useful for balancing the load of incoming messages across multiple
receivers. Regardless of whether the queue is exclusive or not, only one consumer can
ever consume each message that is placed on the queue.
Publish and Subscribe
In a publish and subscribe message system, producers address messages to a topic. In this
model, the producer is known as a publisher and the consumer is known as a subscriber.
Many publishers can publish to the same topic, and a message from a single publisher can
be received by many subscribers. Subscribers subscribe to topics, and all messages
published to the topic are received by all subscribers to the topic. This type of message
protocol is also known as broadcast messaging because messages are sent over the
network and received by all interested subscribers, similar to how radio or television
signals are broadcast and received.
Multicast
Multicast messaging allows one message producer to send a message to multiple
subscribed consumers simultaneously. As in the publish and subscribe messaging models,
the message producer addresses the message to a topic. Instead of delivering a copy of
the message to each individual subscriber over TCP, however, the EMS server broadcasts
the message over Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM). A daemon running on the machine
with the subscribed EMS client receives the multicast message and delivers it to the
message consumer.
Multicast is highly scalable because of the reduction in bandwidth used to broadcast
messages, and because of reduced EMS server resources used. However, multicast does
not guarantee message delivery to all subscribers.

Destinations overview:
1. Static: created by EMS administrator.
2. Dynamic: created by Client programs as needed for short-term use.
3. Tempprary: Temporary destinations are ideal for limited-scope uses, such as reply
subjects.
EMS supports messages up to a maximum size of 512MB
JMS messages have a standard structure. This structure includes the following sections:
Header(required)
Properties(optional)
Body(optional)
JMS message types:
Message: This message type has no body. This is useful for simple event notification.
Text Message: A Java.Lang.String
MapMessages: A set of name/value pairs.
Bytes Messages: A stream of uninterrupted bytes. The bytes are not typed; that is, they
are not assigned to a primitive data type.
StreamMessages: A stream of primitive values in the Java programming language. Each
set of values belongs to a primitive data type, and must be read sequentially.
ObjectMessage: A serializable object constructed in the Java programming language.
Message Delivery Modes
The JMSDeliveryMode message header field defines the delivery mode for the message.
JMS supports PERSISTENT and NON_PERSISTENT delivery modes for both topic and
queue. EMS extends these delivery modes to include a RELIABLE_DELIVERY mode.
PERSISTENT
When a producer sends a PERSISTENT message, the producer must wait for the server
to reply with a confirmation. The message is persisted on disk by the server. This delivery
mode ensures delivery of messages to the destination on the server in almost all
circumstances. However, the cost is that this delivery mode incurs two-way network
traffic for each message or committed transaction of a group of messages
NON_PERSISTENT
Sending a NON_PERSISTENT message omits the overhead of persisting the message on
disk to improve performance.
If authorization is disabled on the server, the server does not send a confirmation to the
message producer.
If authorization is enabled on the server, the default condition is for the producer to wait
for the server to reply with a confirmation in the same manner as when using
PERSISTENT mode.
Regardless of whether authorization is enabled or disabled, you can use the
npsend_check_mode parameter in the tibemsd.conf file to specify the conditions under
which the server is to send confirmation of NON_PERSISTENT messages to the
producer.
Figure 6 Non-Persistent Message Delivery

RELIABLE_DELIVERY
When using RELIABLE_DELIVERY mode, the server never sends the producer a
receipt confirmation or access denial and the producer does not wait for it. Reliable mode
decreases the volume of message traffic, allowing higher message rates, which is useful
for messages containing time-dependent data, such as stock price quotations.
Message Selectors
A message selector is a string that lets a client program specify a set of messages, based
on the values of message headers and properties. A selector matches a message if, after
substituting header and property values from the message into the selector string, the
string evaluates to true. Consumers can request that the server deliver only those
messages that match a selector.
The syntax of selectors is based on a subset of the SQL92 conditional expression syntax.
Identifiers
Identifiers can refer to the values of message headers and properties, but not to the
message body. Identifiers are case-sensitive.
Basic Syntax
An identifier is a sequence of letters and digits, of any length, that begins with a letter. As
in Java, the set of letters includes _ (underscore) and $ (dollar).
flowControl
The flowControl property specifies the target maximum size the server can use to store
pending messages for the destination. Should the number of messages exceed the
maximum, the server will slow down the producers to the rate required by the message
consumers. This is useful when message producers send messages much more quickly
than message consumers can consume them. Unlike the behavior established by the
overflowPolicy property, flowControl never discards messages or generates errors back
to producer.
You can set flowControl using the form:
flowControl=size[KBMBGB]
where size is the maximum number of bytes of storage for pending messages of the
destination. If you specify the flowControl property without a value, the target maximum
is set to 256KB.
You can optionally include a KB, MB or GB after the number to specify kilobytes,
megabytes, or gigabytes, respectively. For example:
flowControl=1000KB
Means 1000 kilobytes.
The flow_control parameter in tibemsd.conf file must be set to enabled before the value
in this property is enforced by the server. See Flow Control for more information about
flow control.
Connection Factory:
A connection factory is either dynamically created by the application or obtained from a
data store by means of a naming service, such as a Java Naming and Directory Interface
(JNDI) server or a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server.

Fault Tolerance:
You can arrange TIBCO enterprise message service server fault tolerant operation by
configuring pair of servers - one primary and backup. The primary server accepts client
connection, and interacts with clients to deliver messages. If primary fails, backup server
resumes operation on its place.
Shared State
A pair of fault tolerant servers must have access to shared state, which consists of client
connections and persistent messages. This information is useful for backup server to
resume its operation of current connections and messages.
Locking:
To prevent the backup server from assuming the role primary server, the shared state is
locked by primary server during normal operation. If primary server fails, then lock is
released and the backup server can obtain lock.
Configuration Files:
When a primary server fails, its backup server assumes as primary server and resume
operations. Before becoming new primary server, the backup server re-reads all it
configuration files. If configuration files are shared by two servers then administrative
changes carry from old primary server to new primary server.
Detection:
The backup server detects the failure of primary server in either two ways:
1. Heartbeat failure: the primary server sends heartbeat messages to backup server to
indicate that it is still operating. When a network failure stops the servers from
communicating each other, the backup server detects the interruption in the steady stream
of heartbeat.
2. Connection failure: The backup server detects its failure of TCP connection with
primary server. When the primary process terminates unexpectedly, the backup server
detects the broken connection.
Heartbeat Parameters
When the primary server heartbeat stops, the backup server waits for its activation
interval (elapsed time since it detected the most recent heartbeat); then the backup server
retrieves information from shared storage and assumes the role of primary server.
The default heartbeat interval is 3 seconds, and the default activation interval is 10
seconds. The activation interval must be at least twice the heartbeat interval. Both
intervals are specified in seconds. You can set these intervals in the server configuration
files.
Shared State:
The primary server and backup server must share same state. The server state includes
three categories of information.
1. Persistent message data
2. Client connection of the primary server
3. Meta data about message delivery

Configuring Fault-Tolerant Servers

To configure an EMS server as a fault-tolerant backup, set these parameters in its main
configuration file (or on the server command line):
Server Set this parameter to the same server name in the configuration files of both the
primary server and the backup server.
ft_active In the configuration file of the primary server, set this parameter to the URL of
the backup server. In the configuration file of the backup server, set this parameter to the
URL of the primary server
Authorization and Fault-Tolerant Servers
EMS authorization interacts with fault tolerance. If authorization is enabled and the two
EMS Servers are configured for fault tolerance, then both servers in a fault-tolerant pair
must be configured as follows:
The tibemsd.conf file for each server must have the same server name and password (the
server and password parameters must be the same on each server).
The user name and password in the users.conf file for each server must match the values
of the server and password parameters in the tibemsd.conf file.
If the two EMS servers are not sharing a users.config file, make sure that you create a
user with the same name as the EMS server, and set the users password with the value of
the Server password.
Configuring Clients for Fault-Tolerant Connections
When a backup server assumes the role of the primary server during failover, clients
attempt to reconnect to the backup server (that is, the new primary). To enable a client to
reconnect, you must specify the URLs of both servers when creating a connection.
Specify multiple servers as a comma-separated list of URLs. Both URLs must use the
same protocol (either tcp or ssl).
The client attempts to connect to each URL in the order listed. If a connection to one
URL fails, the client tries the next URL in the list. The client tries the URLs in sequence
until all URLs have been tried. If the first failed connection was not the first URL in the
list, the attempts wrap to the start of the list (so each URL is tried). If none of the attempts
succeed, the connection fails.
For example, to identify the first server as tcp: //server0:7222, and the second server as
tcp://server1:7344 (if first server is not available), you can specify:
serverUrl = tcp://server0:7222, tcp://server1:7344
Routes
Tibco Enterprise message service servers can route messages to other servers
1. Topic message can travel from one hop to multiple hops
2. Queue messages travel from one hop to home queue and to one hop from home queue.

Questions
1. What are the messaging models does EMS support?
a. Point-to-Point (Queue)
b. Publish and Subscribe (Topic)
c. Multicast (Topic)
2. What are the limitations of the Durable Subscriber?
As long as the durable subscriber exists
Expiration time of the message
Storage limit of that Topic
3. What is the difference between "Multicasting" and "publish and subscribe" messaging
model?
4. What are the EMS Destination features?
Secure Property
Trace Property
Store Property
Redelivery policy
Flow control
Exclusive property for queues
5. What are the extra features are available in EMS apart from JMS?
The JMS standard specifies two delivery modes for messages, PERSISTENT and
NON_PERSISTENT. EMS also includes a RELIABLE_DELIVERY mode that
eliminates some of the overhead associated with the other delivery modes.
For consumer sessions, you can specify a NO_ACKNOWLEDGE mode so that
consumers do not need to acknowledge receipt of messages, if desired. EMS also
provides an EXPLICIT_CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE and
EXPLICIT_CLIENT_DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE mode that restricts the
acknowledgement to single messages
EMS extends the MapMessage and StreamMessage body types. These extensions allow
EMS to exchange messages with TIBCO Rendezvous and ActiveEnterprise formats that
have certain features not available within the JMS MapMessage and StreamMessage
6. What is structure of JMS Message?
Header(Required)
Properties(optional)
Body(optional)
7. Where does the undelivered messages will be stored?
If a message expires or has exceeded the value specified by the maxRedelivery property
on a queue, the server checks the messages
JMS_TIBCO_PRESERVE_UNDELIVERED property. If
JMS_TIBCO_PRESERVE_UNDELIVERED is set to true, the server moves the message
to the undelivered message queue, $sys.undelivered. This undelivered message queue is a
system queue that is always present and cannot be deleted. If
JMS_TIBCO_PRESERVE_UNDELIVERED is set to false, the message will be deleted
by the server
You can only set the undelivered property on individual messages, there is no way to set
the undelivered message queue as an option at the per-topic or per-queue level
8. What are the messages bodies are supported by the EMS?

 Map Message
Text Message
Stream Message
Bytes Message
Object Message
9. What is the Maximum message size is supported by EMS?
EMS supports messages up to a maximum size of 512MB. However, we recommend that
application programs use smaller messages, since messages approaching this maximum
size will strain the performance limits of most current hardware and operating system
platforms
10. What are the different delivery modes available in EMS?
Persistent
When a producer sends a PERSISTENT message, the producer must wait for the server
to reply with a confirmation. The message is persisted on disk by the server. This delivery
mode ensures delivery of messages to the destination on the server in almost all
circumstances. However, the cost is that this delivery mode incurs two-way network
traffic for each message or committed transaction of a group of messages
Non-Persistent
Sending a NON_PERSISTENT message omits the overhead of persisting the message on
disk to improve performance.
If authorization is disabled on the server, the server does not send a confirmation to the
message producer.
If authorization is enabled on the server, the default condition is for the producer to wait
for the server to reply with a confirmation in the same manner as when using
PERSISTENT mode.
Regardless of whether authorization is enabled or disabled, you can use the
npsend_check_mode parameter in the tibemsd.conf file to specify the conditions under
which the server is to send confirmation of NON_PERSISTENT messages to the
producer
Reliable
EMS extends the JMS delivery modes to include reliable delivery. Sending a
RELIABLE_DELIVERY message omits the server confirmation to improve performance
regardless of the authorization setting.
When using RELIABLE_DELIVERY mode, the server never sends the producer a
receipt confirmation or access denial and the producer does not wait for it. Reliable mode
decreases the volume of message traffic, allowing higher message rates, which is useful
for messages containing time-dependent data, such as stock price quotations.
11. If a persistent message is published on to a TOPIC, Does these messages will store on
disk if topic doesnt have durable subscriber or subscriber with a fault-tolerant
connection?
No. Persistent messages published to a topic are written to disk only if that topic has at
least one durable subscriber or one subscriber with a fault-tolerant connection to the EMS
server. In the absence of a durable subscriber or subscriber with a fault-tolerant
connection, there are no subscribers that need messages resent in the event of a server
failure. In this case, the server does not needlessly save persistent messages. This
improves performance by eliminating the unnecessary disk I/O to persist the messages

12. What are the different types of acknowledgement modes in EMS message delivery?
Auto
Client
Dups_ok
No_ack
Explciit
Explicit_client_dups_ok
Transitional
Local transitional.
13. What are the different types of messages that can be used in EMS
Text
Simple
Bytes
Map
XML test
Object
Object ref
Stream
14. Tell me about bridges. Why do we use them, Syntax to create bridges, use of message
selector?
Some applications require the same message to be sent to more than one destination
possibly of different types. So we use bridges in that scenario.
create bridge source=type:dest_name target=type:dest_name [selector=selector]
15. What is the purpose for stores.conf
This file defines the locations either store files or a database, where the EMS server will
store messages or metadata. Each store configured is either a file-based or a database
store.
16. How many modes are the messages written to store file.
Two Modes: Synchronous and Asynchronous
Default is asynchronous
17. What is tibemsd.conf
It is the main configuration file that controls the characteristics of the EMS server
18. Name destination properties and explain them.
Global, secure, maxmsgs, maxbytes, flowcontrol, sender_name, sender_name_enforced,
trace,maxRedelivery
19. What are the different modes of installation in Ems?
GUI mode
Console mode
Silent mode
20. What are the messaging models supported by JMS
Point-to-point
Publish-subscribe
Multicast
21. What is the use of routes? What kind of destinations can be used in routes?

 Topics and queues m-hops

22. What happens if the message expires/exceeded the value specified by maxredelivery
property on queue?
If the jms_preserve_undelivered property is set to true, then it moves he message to
undelivered message queue, if set to false, the message is deleted by the server.
23. In how many ways can a destination be created?
Static-created by server
Dynamic-created by client
Temporary destinations.
24. What are the wild cards that we use in ems? how do they work for queues and topics
*,> you can subscribe to wildcard topics but cant publish to them. Where as in case of
queues we cant either send /receive.
25. Is bridges are transitive?
NO
26. Tell me about flow control on destinations
Some times the producer may send messages faster than the consumers can receive
them. So, the message capacity on the server will be exhausted. So we use flow control.
Flow control can be specified on destinations.
27. Tell me about flow control on bridges and routes
Flow control has to be specified on both sides of bridges where as on routes it operates
differently on sender side and receiver side.
28. Name 3 configuration files and tell me what it consists of
Queues.conf
Topics.conf
Routes.conf
Factories.conf
Stores.conf
Groups.conf,users.conf,transports.conf
29. Name some administrative level destination properties
View
Create
Delete
Modify
Purge
30. How can you change the configuration properties of EMS server?
You can change in the tibemsd.conf file or you can change using the ems admin
console.
31. What are the permissions that you can grant to users to access queues
Receive
Send
Browse
32. What are the permissions that you can grant to users to access topics
Subscribe
Publish

 Durable
Use_durable
33. Tell me about multicasting in EMS
Multicast is a messaging model that broadcasts messages to many consumers at once
rather than sending messages individually to each consumer. EMS uses Pragmatic general
multicast to broadcast messages published to multicast enabled topics.
Each multicast enabled topic is associated with a channel.
34. What are the advantages and disadvantages of multicasting?
Advantages: as the message broadcasts only once thereby reducing the amount of
bandwidth used in publish and subscribe model. Reduces the network traffic.
Disadvantages: Offers only last-hop delivery. So cant be used to send messages
between servers.
35. On what destinations can you use multicast?
Topics
36. Suppose, you got an error while accessing a queue, that you dont have necessary
permissions to access the queue. What might be the solution/reason?
The user that is assigned to the queue and the user used while creating
37. How does the secondary server know that the primary server is failed?
Based on heartbeat intervals
38. What is JMS queue requestor?
The JMS Queue Requestor activity is used to send a request to a JMS queue name and
receive a response back from the JMS client
39. What is JMS topic requestor?
The JMS Topic Requestor activity is used to communicate with a JMS applications
request-response service. This service invokes an operation with input and output. The
request is sent to a JMS topic and the JMS application returns the response to the request.
40. How do you add ems server to administrator?
Using domain utility
41. How do you remove individual messages from destinations?
Use Puge Command.
42. What are the messaging models does EMS support?
Point-to-Point (Queue)
Publish and Subscribe (Topic)
Multicast (Topic)
43. What are the limitations of the Durable Subscriber?
As long as the durable subscriber exists
Expiration time of the message
Storage limit of that Topic
44. What is the difference between "Multicasting" and "publish and subscribe" messaging
model?
45. What are the EMS Destination features?
Secure Property
Trace Property
Store Property
Redelivery policy
Flow control

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 Exclusive property for queues

46. What are the extra features are available in EMS apart from JMS?
The JMS standard specifies two delivery modes for messages, PERSISTENT and
NON_PERSISTENT. EMS also includes a RELIABLE_DELIVERY mode that
eliminates some of the overhead associated with the other delivery modes.
For consumer sessions, you can specify a NO_ACKNOWLEDGE mode so that
consumers do not need to acknowledge receipt of messages, if desired. EMS also
provides an EXPLICIT_CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE and
EXPLICIT_CLIENT_DUPS_OK_ACKNOWLEDGE mode that restricts the
acknowledgement to single messages
EMS extends the MapMessage and StreamMessage body types. These extensions allow
EMS to exchange messages with TIBCO Rendezvous and ActiveEnterprise formats that
have certain features not available within the JMS MapMessage and StreamMessage
47. What is structure of JMS Message?
Header(Required)
Properties(optional)
Body(optional)
48. Where does the undelivered messages will be stored?
If a message expires or has exceeded the value specified by the maxRedelivery property
on a queue, the server checks the messages
JMS_TIBCO_PRESERVE_UNDELIVERED property. If
JMS_TIBCO_PRESERVE_UNDELIVERED is set to true, the server moves the message
to the undelivered message queue, $sys.undelivered. This undelivered message queue is a
system queue that is always present and cannot be deleted. If
JMS_TIBCO_PRESERVE_UNDELIVERED is set to false, the message will be deleted
by the server
You can only set the undelivered property on individual messages, there is no way to set
the undelivered message queue as an option at the per-topic or per-queue level
49. What is the Maximum message size is supported by EMS?
EMS supports messages up to a maximum size of 512MB. However, we recommend
that application programs use smaller messages, since messages approaching this
maximum size will strain the performance limits of most current hardware and operating
system platforms
50. What are the different delivery modes available in EMS?
Persistent
when a producer sends a PERSISTENT message, the producer must wait for the server to
reply with a confirmation. The message is persisted on disk by the server. This delivery
mode ensures delivery of messages to the destination on the server in almost all
circumstances. However, the cost is that this delivery mode incurs two-way network
traffic for each message or committed transaction of a group of messages
Non-Persistent
Sending a NON_PERSISTENT message omits the overhead of persisting the message on
disk to improve performance.
If authorization is disabled on the server, the server does not send a confirmation to the
message producer.

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If authorization is enabled on the server, the default condition is for the producer to wait
for the server to reply with a confirmation in the same manner as when using
PERSISTENT mode.
Regardless of whether authorization is enabled or disabled, you can use the
npsend_check_mode parameter in the tibemsd.conf file to specify the conditions under
which the server is to send confirmation of NON_PERSISTENT messages to the
producer
Reliable
EMS extends the JMS delivery modes to include reliable delivery. Sending a
RELIABLE_DELIVERY message omits the server confirmation to improve performance
regardless of the authorization setting.
When using RELIABLE_DELIVERY mode, the server never sends the producer a
receipt confirmation or access denial and the producer does not wait for it. Reliable mode
decreases the volume of message traffic, allowing higher message rates, which is useful
for messages containing time-dependent data, such as stock price quotations.
51. If a persistent message is published on to a TOPIC, Does these messages will store on
disk if topic doesnt have durable subscriber or subscriber with a fault-tolerant
connection?
No. Persistent messages published to a topic are written to disk only if that topic has at
least one durable subscriber or one subscriber with a fault-tolerant connection to the EMS
server. In the absence of a durable subscriber or subscriber with a fault-tolerant
connection, there are no subscribers that need messages resent in the event of a server
failure. In this case, the server does not needlessly save persistent messages. This
improves performance by eliminating the unnecessary disk I/O to persist the messages
what is difference between the SOAP over JMS and SOAP over HTTP?
Consider using SOAP over HTTP for:
Externally facing web services (e.g. customers or suppliers)
For simple point-to-point and stateless services
Where you need a thin client with no MOM installations
Consider using SOAP over JMS for:
High-volume distributed messaging
Asynchronous messaging
Where a transaction boundary is needed in the middleware
Where the message consumers are slower than the producers
Guaranteed deliver and/or only once delivery of messages
Publish/subscribe
Distributed peer systems that might at times be disconnected

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