How I saved big money for Allegro with Tibco BusinessWorks using Java

Time is money. Tibco BusinessWorks is a business enabler allowing for rapid development and very short time to market. Company which deployed Tibco EAI stack has a real market advantage. Power of now. Usage of Canonical Data Model promotes reusability. Visual programming with predefined common activities makes it easy and fast to design processes. What about complex problems which would slow down development to the left from Tibco (system calling BW services) while accessing external operations from the right, for at least 6 months. No business integration means no money. Here is the case: API of the business partner had various usage limits on different levels (including global limit). Limits were interconnected and blocking or interrupting complex business processes. Implementation of usage counters, time slots and batching among all BW clients would took one year. In fact limits were preventing business cooperation. Hey, but Tibco is a business enabler, not a blocker! BW allows to include any static Java Custom Function as internal BW function visible among built-in functions. I created "throttling" custom function holding state across component restarts in 10 minutes. Addtional 2-3 hours of development saved months of hard and complex work of BW callers! We started business cooperation much earlier and started earning money earlier. Tibco. Power of now!