Business integration capabilities

IBM integration Designer provides a filtering function known as capabilities. With capabilities, you can choose to hide tools not used during business integration application development. At any time, you can choose to show those tools again.

IBM Integration Designer supports a range of servers and, runtime deployment environments. Tools are grouped into predefined categories called capabilities according to the target runtime that they support. You use capabilities to filter your development environment, so that you see only the tools that you need. In order to access a tool, its capability must be enabled.

When install Integration Designer, you are asked to select a runtime environment. The capability that corresponds to your selection is enabled. The first time you start IBM Integration Designer, the tools that are part of that capability are available, and the other tools are hidden. The Getting Started page is also customized according to the runtime (and capability) that you selected during installation. You can enable or disable capabilities at any time according to your needs.

IBM Integration Designer provides these capabilities:

• Process Server Development

  Includes WebSphere ESB development tools. Additionally, provides tools, functions, and related documentation to create and test applications that can be deployed to this server.

  Use this capability if you want to work with business processes created in IBM Process Designer and the Process Center repository. Also use this capability if you want to work with applications that targeted the WebSphere Process Server in previous releases.

  The Process Server development capability includes:

  • Process applications and toolkits.
  • Modules, mediation modules and libraries
  • Business Objects

  • Interfaces and interface maps

  • Data maps: Business object maps, Relationships and XML maps.
  • Customized visual snippets
  • BPEL Processes
  • Mediation flows
  • Human tasks
  • State machines
  • Business rules
  • Business Vocabularies
  • Business Calendar
  • Java Components

  • Selectors

  • Enterprise Access artifacts and adapters

• WebSphere ESB Development

  Provides tools, functions, and related documentation to create and test applications that can be deployed to the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and the Process Center :

  • Mediation modules and assemblies
  • Libraries
  • Business Objects

  • Interfaces
  • Business object and XML maps
  • Mediation flows
  • Java Components

  • Enterprise Access artifacts and bindings

• WebSphere DataPower

  Provides tools, functions, and related documentation to create and test artifacts that can be deployed to WebSphere DataPower:

  • DataPower libraries
  • Business Objects

  • Interfaces
  • XML maps

To see the capabilities that are available, follow these steps:

1. From the Help menu, select Getting Started > IBM Integration Designer.

2. In the Getting Started page that opens, the section What environment do you want to use? shows the current capability that is enabled.

Workspaces

Related tasks:
Enabling tool capabilities