Sometimes timezone data changes. The Java’s timezone data is not read from the operating system, it maintains a private repository of timezone data in locally installed files (.../jre/lib/zi).

There is a tool from Sun for updating timezone data in installed JRE or JDK software, which called the Timezone Updater tool, or TZUpdater, it can be downloaded for free. The TZUpdater tool modifies the JDK/JRE software instance that is used to execute the tool. A single image of the JDK/JRE software is modified per execution. The same procedure for Unix or Windows.

First execution with -t option to perform verification tests:

c:\>C:\tibco\tibcojre\1.6.0\bin\java.exe -jar tzupdater.jar -t
/data/tzdata2011k.test:165: time zone not found: America/Sitka
/data/tzdata2011k.test:315: time zone not found: America/Metlakatla
/data/tzdata2011k.test:1151: time zone not found: America/North_Dakota/Beulah
/data/tzdata2011k.test:1277: test failed: America/Resolute
/data/tzdata2011k.test:1370: test failed: Chile/EasterIsland
/data/tzdata2011k.test:1413: test failed: Pacific/Easter
/data/tzdata2011k.test:1564: test failed: America/Havana
/data/tzdata2011k.test:1988: test failed: Cuba
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2236: test failed: America/Goose_Bay
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2278: time zone not found: America/Kralendijk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2280: time zone not found: America/Lower_Princes
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2315: test failed: America/Santiago
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2447: test failed: Chile/Continental
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2493: test failed: America/St_Johns
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2512: test failed: CNT
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2533: test failed: Canada/Newfoundland
/data/tzdata2011k.test:2762: test failed: Africa/Casablanca
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4024: test failed: Asia/Gaza
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4025: time zone not found: Asia/Hebron
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4035: test failed: Asia/Istanbul
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4227: test failed: Europe/Istanbul
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4417: test failed: Turkey
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4442: time zone not found: Africa/Juba
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4457: test failed: Europe/Kaliningrad
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4460: test failed: Europe/Kiev
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4463: test failed: Europe/Minsk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4466: test failed: Europe/Simferopol
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4469: test failed: Europe/Uzhgorod
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4472: test failed: Europe/Zaporozhye
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4566: test failed: Europe/Moscow
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4569: test failed: Europe/Samara
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4572: test failed: Europe/Volgograd
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4599: test failed: W-SU
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4631: test failed: Asia/Yekaterinburg
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4644: test failed: Asia/Novokuznetsk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4647: test failed: Asia/Novosibirsk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4650: test failed: Asia/Omsk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4668: test failed: Asia/Krasnoyarsk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4693: test failed: Asia/Irkutsk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:4814: test failed: Asia/Yakutsk
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5059: test failed: Asia/Sakhalin
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5062: test failed: Asia/Vladivostok
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5116: test failed: Asia/Anadyr
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5119: test failed: Asia/Kamchatka
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5122: test failed: Asia/Magadan
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5190: test failed: Pacific/Fiji
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5247: test failed: Pacific/Apia
/data/tzdata2011k.test:5262: test failed: MIT

So we can see a list of incorrect timezone data in JRE that we have with the latest TIBCO TRA. It’s time to perform an update:

c:\>C:\tibco\tibcojre\1.6.0\bin\java.exe -jar tzupdater.jar -u

Don’t forget to restart all TIBCO processes (Java instances) to pick up new timezone data.

On the link below you can view keynotes and download presentations from TIBCO User Conference TUCON 2011:

https://ssl.tibcommunity.com/community/tucon/tucon2011-public

This link to TIBCOmmunity site, where a lot of useful information and discussions. But unfortunately access isn’t open publicly and registration is required.

When running 32-bit TIBCO Installer on x64 platform, you may encounter this error TIBINS202504 INTERNAL ERROR: You do not have the required administrator privileges for the Install Wizard to proceed with installation. Then following window appears, which contains more useful information: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError win32ppk.dll Can’t load IA 32-bit .dll on a AMD 64-bit platform.

To solve this problem, you have to run installer with 32-bit Java. There are two options: you can temporarily point JAVA_HOME system variable to 32-bit Java folder or run installer with -is:javahome parameter like in my example:

TIB_adswift-simple_5.8.0_win_x86.exe -is:javahome "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6"

TIBCO invites everyone interested in how social media is changing business software to the launch of tibbr™, TIBCO’s new enterprise social computing technology.

Chairman/CEO Vivek Ranadivé will explain how tibbr expands on TIBCO’s historic commitment to “real time” enterprise communications.

EVP and CAO of MGM Resorts International, Aldo Manzini, will describe how they are using social media to deliver on providing exceptional customer service to every corner of the world.A panel of industry experts and users will also engage in a lively discussion on emerging trends in enterprise social computing and why this technology is important to businesses.

When: Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, 10:30 a.m. to noon, PST. Lunch will be provided.
Where: Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street, (at First), San Francisco, complimentary valet parking is available.

As space is limited, please register by visiting http://forms2.tibco.com/tibbrlaunch_sf or by contacting TIBCO’s Tiffany Anderson at tanderso@tibco.com or (650) 846-8737.

I have a new installation, and when I tried to run newly deployed BW-application, the following error occurred:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Library not found: tibrvnativesd
at com.tibco.tibrv.Tibrv.loadNativeLibrary(Tibrv.java:388)
at com.tibco.tibrv.Tibrv.(Tibrv.java:79)
at com.tibco.sdk.m.byte(MAppImpl.java:700)
at com.tibco.sdk.m.v(MAppImpl.java:478)
at com.tibco.sdk.m.(MAppImpl.java:95)
at com.tibco.sdk.a.(MThinAppImpl.java:21)
at com.tibco.sdk.MApp.(MApp.java:149)
at com.tibco.share.util.TraceApp.(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.share.util.Trace.if(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.share.util.Trace.a(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.share.util.Trace.(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.pe.core.JobPoolCreator.createTrace(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.pe.PEMain.a(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.pe.PEMain.do(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.pe.PEMain.a(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.pe.PEMain.(Unknown Source)
at com.tibco.pe.PEMain.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /export/home/tibco/tibrv/8.3/lib/libtibrvnativesd.so: ld.so.1: bwengine: fatal: /export/home/tibco/tibrv/8.3/lib/libtibrvnativesd.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1803)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1728)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1028)
at com.tibco.tibrv.Tibrv.loadNativeLibrary(Tibrv.java:385)
... 16 more

Thanks to support, they gave me the clue that helped:

Could you please replace the %RV_HOME%/lib with %RV_HOME%/lib/tibrvj.jar in the property tibco.env.STD_EXT_CP in bwengine.tra, redeploy your application and test if the issue gets resolved?

New TIBCO Runtime Agent Software 5.7.0 has been released, include:

• TIBCO Rendezvous 8.3.0
• TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 6.0.0 Client Libraries
• TIBCO Hawk 4.9.0
• TIBCO Designer 5.7.0
• TPCL 5.7.0

As well as TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.9.0 and TIBCO Administrator 5.7.0. Now with full support of Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86, x86-64), Windows Server 2008 R2 (x86-64), Windows 7 (x86, x86-64). Also now we have 64-bit version of each product for Solaris SPARC and x86.

You can find everything you need on the download.tibco.com according to your subscription. So, if you still dreaming of your new TIBCO environment – this is the right time to do that!

You may encounter this problem when installing TIBCO products on Solaris x86. In my case it was Runtime Agent 5.6.0 installation.

./TRA.5.6.0-suite_sol10_x86.bin -console

Then installation fails and the error message looks like this:

Unrecognized option: -cp:TRA.5.6.0-suite_sol10_x86.jar:TRA.5.6.0-simple_sol10_x86.jar:tibrv.8.1.1-simple_sol10_x86.jar:jre.1.5.0-simple_sol10_x86_64.jar:Designer.5.6.0-simple_sol10_x86_64.jar:tpcl.5.6.0-simple_sol10_x86.jar:hawk.4.8.1-simple_sol10_x86_64.jar:/var/tmp/isjCAAWCa4en/TRA.5.6.0-suite_sol10_x86.jar:
Could not create the Java virtual machine.

There is a bug in the installer, as a workaround you can force the installer to use Java in the system. Just specify -is:javahome option like in my example:

./TRA.5.6.0-suite_sol10_x86.bin -console -is:javahome /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_24/

Should work now.

Yesterday TIBCO announced security vulnerability in TIBCO ActiveMatrix Products. ActiveMatrix Runtime and Administrator components contain a critical vulnerability in the handling of JMX connections. An attacker with access to an affected system could gain administrative control over the system, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code on any host that is a participant in the system.

TIBCO has released updated versions of the affected software products. If an upgrade is not possible, use a firewall to restrict access to the ActiveMatrix Runtime and Administrator components.

Additional information and list of affected products versions here.

Just found on LinkedIn that TIBCO is looking for Product Manager TIBBR. Hope they will actively develop this tool in the near future.

Product Manager TIBBR will serve internally as liaisons within and between engineering, support, sales, field technical services, finance, legal and fulfillment. Product Manager TIBBR serves externally as liaisons between TIBCO’s product groups and TIBCO’s customers and field staff.

Product Manager TIBBR serve as an internal advocate for their product, disseminating information about products within TIBCO (e.g., to peer engineering groups, to professional services, to support, etc.) through collateral, presentations, meetings and one-to-one engagements. Activities include providing support for pre-sales and sales teams, as well as professional services and solution architecture groups, through presentations, written collateral, and product demos, in both strategic and tactical situations.

To following my previous post about EMS Central Administration installation, this part is about client.

There is the same Universal Installer by TIBCO, it helps to make installation process easy. Execute it, accept the license agreement, create a new or select an existing environment, check the summary and complete the installation.

Then I can star EMSCA from my Start menu. This is Eclipse, I have to create a new workspace. Then File => New EMS Central Administration Project. Enter host name and port, where is EMSCA Server is installed. Enter username and password to connect, select the deployment to create a project for.

Next step is synchronizing with EMS. TIBCO EMS => Synchronize Configurations With EMS Servers. Enter username and password, select EMS server to synchronize.

Now I can change the server configuration. Then save to SVN repository. TIBCO EMS => Save Configurations to Repository.

Then it is possible to deploy changes to the server. TIBCO EMS => Deploy EMS Project.

So, this was short description of the TIBCO EMS Central Administration, very helpful tool to manage configurations of multiple EMS instances.