Things are moving along quickly with TIBant and we are happy to announce that TIBant™ Beta 1.3.0 has just been released.

The 1.3.0 release brings support for Runtime and Instance Runtime Variables. Runtime variables are Global Variables that are set per Process Archive. For instance, say you had a Enterprise Archive with two process archives. Normally any Global Variable settings would apply to both Process Archives. With Runtime Variables, they can use the same Global Variable with different values. Instance Runtime Variables are a similar concept but these are set per Process Archive Instance. So, just say you had a Process Archive that uses a HTTP receiver and you would like to load balance it, but only have one machine to deploy it to. By setting appropriate Instance Runtime Variables, you can have both running on the same machine, listening on different ports. Whack a load balancer in front of them (for Services, you can use TIBCO Active Matrix Policy Manager as the proxy) and you've slightly increased the availability of your application.

The most relevant change for existing users, is that ant-contrib is no longer loaded automatically when you import TIBant. Instead you need to call the load-ant-contrib macro before calling any of the other TIBant macros. The example project shows how this is done.

As usual the release notes are over at Assembla.

TIBant™ is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

The Windy Road Team is very proud to announce the availability of the TIBant™ Beta 1.2.0 for immediate download.

The 1.2.0 release brings a major refactor of the interfaces for the various macros, providing consitency acrosss the entire suite. Please see the release notes for further details.

TIBant provides a set of Apace Ant macros for building and deploying TIBCO Business Works projects. Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. Ant uses XML to describe the build process and its dependencies.

TIBant features the innovative Designer Launch Control, which allows you to launch TIBCO Designer from Ant, specifing and controling your file aliases, class paths and global variables, on a project by project basis from within each project's Apache Ant build script.

TIBant also features Property File to Engine Configuration Translation, allowing you to specify Business Works engine properties in simple property files. TIBant translates these property files into AppManage compatible configuration files, for each of your environments.

TIBant™ is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

The Windy Road Team is very proud to announce the availability of the TIBant™ 1.0.0 for immediate download.

TIBant provides Apache Ant macros for building and deploying TIBCO Business Works projects.

TIBant™ is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

The Windy Road Team is very proud to announce the availability of the BWUnit™ 1.3.0 for immediate download.

This release is primarily an defect correction release, resolving a Designer Launch Control defect on Posix platforms and some documentation defects. Additionally, TIBCO Hawk is no longer required to terminate BWUnit test runs launched from Apache Ant. See the Release Notes for more details.

The Windy Road Team is very proud to announce the availability of the BWUnit™ 1.2.4 for immediate download.

This release is primarily an enhancement release, reducing the minimum required version of TIBCO Business Works to 5.3. This release also includes two minor defect corrections. See the Release Notes for more details.

The Windy Road Team is very proud to announce the availability of the BWUnit™ 1.2.3 for immediate download.

This release is primarily a defect correction release, but also includes an number of enhancements, especially in terms of the user guide. See the Release Notes for more details.

The Windy Road Team is very proud to announce the availability of the BWUnit™ 1.2.2 for immediate download. BWUnit™ is still in beta, however this release is a significant milestone in that it is the first release that is being made available to the general public.

Get it while it's hot. Beta participation is free, however spaces are limited. Apply now and find out how easily BWUnit can help you improve the quality of your TIBCO BusinessWorks™ projects.

BWUnit™ follows in the footsteps of other code-driven testing frameworks such as JUnit, borrowing key concepts, including assertions and test fixtures and introduces them to the BusinessWorks™ development world. Effective unit testing with BWUnit™ allows your developers to isolate individual processes within your TIBCO BusinessWorks™ projects to show they function correctly.

Back in July last year, we updated the site with Vistered Little II, and said a public release would follow.  Part of that process was to have the design tweaked by  Vize Media, the design company we use.  After some feedback from him, we decided to give him free reign and what you are seeing now is the fruit of their labour, which we are very happy with and we hope you like too.

Here is our conundrum though, what should we do with the Vistered Little II code?  Does anyone still want it?  Please let us know.

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Today, Windy Road Technology became TIBCO's newest software partner. This is a massive achievement and honour for us, being such as small company. This partnership will allow us to bring to market value-add solutions to the TIBCO space, such as Windy Road BWUnit™; an innovative new tool for unit testing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ processes.