Input Adapters

There are two TIBCO Rendezvous input adapters: the standard adapter and the certified mode adapter. The standard input adapter takes data from a TIBCO Rendezvous source and sends the rows to the Sybase CEP stream. The certified mode input adapter takes data from a TIBCO Rendezvous source in certified mode and sends the rows to the Sybase CEP stream.

The certified mode input adapter uses both the TIBCO certified mode delivery feature and the Sybase CEP guaranteed delivery (GD) feature, also referred to as guaranteed processing. Guaranteed processing ensures that all messages from your message source are received and processed without error or duplication, even in situations such as server crashes or lost network connections.

For information on TIBCO certified mode delivery, see your TIBCO documentation. For information on Sybase CEP guaranteed processing, see the Sybase CEP Integration Guide > Implementing Guaranteed Processing.

• Properties
  The standard and certified mode input adapters provide several configuration properties.
• Conversions
  Each incoming Rendezvous message must contain nothing but flat data fields (in other words, no submessages or repeated fields), each named precisely the same as a column in the Sybase CEP schema for the associated input stream (text case is significant). If there is not a TIBCO data field with the same name as a given Sybase CEP schema column, the Sybase CEP row produced will have a NULL value for that column. Thus, an empty Rendezvous message would yield a row with all columns NULL.