Overview of TopBraid Live Integration

TopBraid Live is TopQuadrant's client-server platform in the TopBraid Suite product family. TopBraid Live can be used to execute semantic web applications or Web Services in conjunction with rich internet applications, especially SPARQL Web Pages. TopBraid Live can also be used to host out-of-the-box solutions such as TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance (EDG). You can find demo versions of TopBraid EDG on the TopBraid Applications menu. TopBraid Live also hosts a built-in SPARQL Endpoint.

TopBraid Live is a separate installation. For more information, see the TopBraid Live web page.

TopBraid Composer launches a personal TopBraid Live server in the background at http://localhost:8083 (use http://localhost:8083/tbl to access the admin console). This lets you design and refine web applications on the local machine before uploading them to a TopBraid Live server. While the TBC-ME server is limited to a single user and session, it provides most of the capabilities of TopBraid Live and is therefore an ideal test environment for web applications. Developers can design and test web applications using TBC-ME for deployment to a TopBraid Live server that can be used by end users.

TopBraid Composer also has a custom-tailored Export Wizard to deploy projects from your workspace into an existing TopBraid Live Server container. Right-click on a project in the Project Explorer and select Export > TopBraid Composer > Deploy Project to TopBraid Live Server to get started.

TopBraid Enterprise Reference Architecture

The following shows the TopBraid Enterprise Reference Architecture (ERA), a model of how applications running with TopBraid Live can use the available services to interact with interface tools, governance tools, other data sources, and other services in an enterprise architecture. Components of the diagram are explained in more detail, with examples, below the diagram.

TopBraid Live

The middle of the diagram shows the range of services available to TopBraid applications running on TopBraid Live:

• Presentation Services

  • Provide user interfaces for rendering Semantic Web data
  • Provide Entity Services
  • Enable querying via the SPARQL language, including SPARQL Endpoints

• Rules Services

  • Define rules and constraints on information and data
  • Execute rules and constraints
  • Resource-centric web-services

• Model Services

  • Manage consolidation of graphs, temporary and persistent triple stores
  • Manage Core concept models to which all concepts are mapped
  • Provide services for structured vocabularies for disambiguation of terms
  • Manage Schema, Dataset, Transformation, and Proxy Models
  • Provide services for mapping between concepts and locations

• Federation Services

  • Perform federated queries across multiple databases
  • Manage data source locations
  • Provide on-demand data access

• Data Services

  • Query via the SPARQL language
  • Access data via connectors for JSON, RSS/Atom, RDBMS, CMS, Excel, HTML text, CSV, XML
  • Access data via SPARQL Endpoints including Linked Open Data
  • Extract indices on external data into local triple store
  • Redirect from persistent to actual location

• Application Interoperability Services

  • Scripting of data processing pipelines
  • Integrate with enterprise applications, e.g. workflow engines and search engines
  • Extract transform load and map into local triple stores
  • Provision customized web services

Enterprise Applications

• Provide orchestration of services

• Provision external web services for TopBraid orchestration scripts

• Invoke TopBraid published web services

Governance Capabilities

TopBraid Composer provides the following governance capabilities:

• Application Composition and Configuration

• Manage User Profiles

• Deployment Manager

Additional governance capabilities are available as services from TopBraid Live applications:

• Manage Authorization, Authentication and User Accounts

• Register Services

• Provision Services

• Monitor Services

• Handle Exceptions