TIBCO rendevous

v   Rendezvous Daemon

§  Background process (rvd)

§  All information that travels between processes pass through a TIBCO Rendezvous daemon as it enters a host computer or exists a sending process

§  Responsibilities

o        Data transport

o        Packet ordering

o        Receipt acknowledgement

o        Retransmission requests

o        Dispatching information to the correct application process

v  Rendezvous API

§  C

§  C++

§  Java

v  Reliable Message Delivery

§  Standard multicast and broadcast protocols are not reliable and unable to detect loss messages

§  Receiving RVD detects missing packets and requests that the sending daemon retransmit them

§  Sending RVD stores outbound messages for a limited period of time

§  Re-transmissions

o        Buffers held for a time interval

o        Duplicate requests for the same packet within a window are ignored

v    Subject-based addressing conventions define a simple, uniform name space for messages and their destinations decoupling programs from the network addresses of specific computers.

v  Communication between programs is anonymous, decoupling consumers from producers.

§  Consumers need not know where or how data is produced

§  Producers need not know where data is consumed

v  Special Characters

§  _ (underscore): Subject names beginning with underscore are reserved.

§  . (dot): Separates elements within a subject name.

§  > (greater-than): Wildcard character, matches one or more trailing elements.

§  * (asterisk): Wildcard character, matches one element.

v  Wildcards

§  The asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that matches any one element. The asterisk substitutes for whole elements only, not for partial substrings of characters within an element.

§  Greater-than (>) is a wildcard character that matches all the elements remaining to the right.

v  Names that begin with an underscore character (_) are special subjects

§  _INBOX.

v  All inbox names begin with this prefix. Programs may not create inbox names except with inbox creation calls. Programs cannot combine inbox names with wildcards.

§  _LOCAL.

v  Messages with subject names that have this prefix are only visible and distributed to transports connected to the same TIB/Rendezvous daemon as the sender.

§  _RV., _RVCM., _RVCMQ., _RVFT., _RVDS.

v  Subject names with those prefixes indicate advisory messages, including informational messages, warnings and errors. Programs must not send to subjects with this prefix.

Listening to:	Matches to:	Does not match to:
RUN.*	RUN.AWAY RUN.away	RUN.Run.run (extra element) Run.away (case) RUN (missing element)
Yankees.vs.*	Yankees.vs.Red_Sox Yankees.vs.Orioles	Giants.vs.Yankees (position) Yankees.beat.Sox (vs beat) Yankees.vs (missing element)
*.your.*	Amaze.your.friends Raise.your.salary Darn.your.socks	your (missing elements) Pick.up.your.foot (position)
RUN.>	RUN.DMC RUN.RUN.RUN RUN.SWIM.BIKE.SKATE	HOME.RUN (position) Run.away (case) RUN (missing element)

v  TIBCO RV programs exchange self-describing data that consists of up to 6 parts:

§  Data

o        The data itself

§  Type

o        Indicator to interpret the data as an integer, a string, a composite message, or any other datatype

§  Size

o        Number of bytes that the data occupies

§  Name

o        The subject name of the message or the name of a field within a message

§  Identifier

o        An optional integer that uniquely identifies a field within a message

§  Count

o        The number of elements in an array datatype

v  Two Types

§  Network Transport

o        Delivers messages across a network to one or many hosts

o        Messages pass through the RVD process

§  Intra-process Transport

o        Deliver messages between program threads