Moving Middleware to the Cloud? Here’s How to Survive the TIBCO BWCE Migration

How to move on-premise TIBCO BW applications to a containerized cloud environment (BWCE on AWS ECS) while ensuring compatibility, stability, and effective monitoring.

For the past couple of years, I have extensively worked on migrating applications from on-Premise to AWS cloud. In this article, I would like to discuss the process of migrating middleware applications developed in TIBCO Business Works (BW) 5.x version to its cloud-native successor, TIBCO Business Works Container Editions (BWCE) 2.x version.

Migration Process

Application Analysis

The initial phase is to evaluate the existing BW applications, to assess the dependencies such as shared modules, libraries, and adapters, as well as unsupported activities, components, custom Java code, and non-standard configurations that required modification to ensure compatibility with the cloud environment. Key focus areas also included local file systems, application configurations ...