ADB Adaptor:

An adapter as you will learn from this clear and concise tutorial is a bridge between different applications
wanting to pass information between each other asynchronously or synchronously. Adapter messages can
be transported via the Tibco bus - Rendezvous or EMS (based on JMS)
The adapter's functionality would include checking the vendor for latest data updates and pushing the same
to the subscriber(s). To achieve this there are two approaches one is via polling where after a specified
interval the adapter retrieves the required information periodically, this being its default methodology or by
setting the publisher to use an alerter in the case of communication with certain databases - oracle,
microsoft sql server and sybase sql server (look up the corresponding documentation in the docs folder of
the tibco adapater installation). An alerter is triggered by the corresponding database on a commit to the
table being observed. Therefore if we the scenario is such that the updates to the observed table are
infrequent, the alerter would be a more efficient/appropriate choice when compared to a poller.
The demo here uses the Publish and Subscribe components of the ADB adapter while interacting with an
oracle database.
To use the alerter in the example here , you need to ensure that the Oracle AQ (AQ stands for advanced
queueing) package is installed on the database concerned.
The alerter on Oracle uses the Oracle AQ package to send and receive information between
sessions, asynchronously allowing two or more sessions in the same database instance to
communicate.
Please look up the setup information on alerter in the corresponding TIBCO documentation

A. Alerter is available on all the databases ADB Adapter is supported to work with.
B. Alerter is used to asynchronously notify running publication service
instances of database changes
C. Alerter is recommended to be used in
case of frequent changes to a database.
Which of the following hold good for the 'Write to Database on Save' option?
Choose one answer.
A. Needs to be checked to write all the configuration settings to the database when
the project is saved
B. Needs to be checked for creation of the Publishing table for a publisher
C. Is enabled by default