- how to build reliable applications using TIBCO SmartSockets
- how TIBCO SmartSockets detects and recovers from network/system failures
- how RTserver can be restarted when failure occurs
- how RTclients can perform a hot failover to another RTserver
- how TIBCO SmartSockets buffers messages when a process is not ready
- how guaranteed message delivery works
- how the delivery status of a message can be checked