TIBCO now includes commercial support and services for Apache Kafka® and Eclipse Mosquitto™

TIBCO now includes commercial support and services for Apache Kafka® and Eclipse Mosquitto™

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TIBCO Enterprise Message Service -

Description

Tibco also announced the availability of MQTT broker capabilities within Tibco Messaging, via the open-source Eclipse Mosquitto project. MQTT is a protocol widely used in IoT-type applications. 
The customers who currently get support for TIBCO Messaging also get support for the entire stack, including support for Apache Kafka and Eclipse Mosquitto.
Until now a developer using TIBCO Messaging wanted to make data published to Kafka available directly to applications not based on Kafka, they would build a custom bridge and publish via another messaging service, whereas from May 2018, when the new integration  rolled out, now they will be able to publish direct to the TIBCO  FTL enterprise messaging middleware.
 

Issue/Introduction

Answers for queries regarding newly added support for Apache Kafka and Eclipse Mosquitto.

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Resolution

Queries solved regarding MQTT and KAFKA:
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1. Does Messaging bridge available for MQTT to connect to other messaging system like EMS? I mean, can we use both Mosquitto MQTT + EMS as a messaging broker system on our enterprise integration environment.
=>TIBCO Enterprise Message Service connects with TIBCO FTL® , TIBCO eFTL, TIBCO® Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution and TIBCO® Messaging - Eclipse Mosquitto Distribution providing one platform to address all inter-application communication needs. For example, you can receive data from IoT devices via MQTT and publish into Apache Kafka streams and JMS destinations.
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2. If we already have EMS licence, can that be applicable for MQTT and Kafka subscription?
=>To get access to Kafka and Mosquitto distributions, you have to have a subscription of TIBCO Messaging - Enterprise Edition.  Please contact your TIBCO account executive for the license.
TIBCO Messaging - Enterprise Edition is available as a single subscription which includes all TIBCO Messaging components.TIBCO Messaging includes TIBCO FTL®, TIBCO eFTL™, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™, TIBCO® Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution, and TIBCO® Messaging - Eclipse Mosquitto Distribution.
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3. What about the integration support for Tibco BW (5.13) for MQTT? Can this be achieved or we need BW 6.x to support the functionality.
=>BW provides a MQTT plugin on https;//tap.tibco.com.
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4. Does TIBCO cloud messaging supports to all available messaging methods like EMS, MQTT etc
=>TCM currently supports eFTL only.  We have plans to support additional messaging in the future.
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5. Can a hybrid solution be used for messaging i.e both cloud and on premise with same licence
=>TIBCO Messaging - Enterprise Edition can be deployed on-prem, in the cloud or hybrid, however, it does not include TIBCO Cloud Messaging (TCM)
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