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Business Integration perspective and views

The Business Integration perspective provides simple, uncluttered views of essential resources so that you can model and build business solutions. Unnecessary details and unused tools are hidden.

By default, when you launch the product, the Business Integration perspective opens. This perspective has the following views:


Business Integration view

The Business Integration perspective has a Business Integration view, which provides a logical view of the key resources in each module, mediation module, and library. Within each project, the resources are categorized by type. You can also use the Business Integration view to navigate through Java™ and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition resources and to open the various Java and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition editors.

Logical resources shown in the navigation tree do not necessarily have a one-to-one mapping to files. Artifacts that are not necessary for the development of integration applications are not shown in this navigation tree.

In the Business Integration view, a module's resources are organized by type:

Click the Show Namespaces button,

, to show the namespaces of the resources.

By default the resources are sorted by type of object. You can also sort all the resources within each module or library by the folders that contain the resources or by namespaces (which would turn on and display the namespaces of all the resources).

You can apply filters to exclude all but required objects from the view. By default, filters are enabled for data and interfaces. You can apply filters to other types of artifacts in Preferences.


Physical Resources view

The Physical Resources view shows all of the file-level resources from the modules and libraries in their natural form. Related projects that are generated when you create business integration applications are still hidden in this view.

The logical contents of the physical file are also displayed in this view.

For example, if you have several business objects in an XSD file, you will be able to expand the XSD file in this view and see all the business objects in the file.

If you have an artifact open in an editor, you can click the opened artifact in the editor pane (to focus on it) and then click the Link with Editor

button to quickly locate the file in the Business Integration view.

You can apply filters to exclude all but required objects from the Physical Resources view. By default, filters are enabled for XSD files to make it easier to find data types.

You can also apply filters to WSDL files by enabling that function in Preferences and you can apply a filter to hide secondary artifacts.

The .settings folder in this view contains properties used by IBM Integration Designer and should be shared with each project. For that reason, the .settings folder should be added to team repositories.


Editor pane

When you open a resource from the Business Integration view with an editor, the resource is displayed in the editor pane. Many business integration tools are graphical editors so that the diagrams are composed on the canvas of the editor.

Graphical editors usually work with the Properties view to show the properties of selected elements on the canvas. Also, see the Outline view to see how an editor works with that view.


References view

For a selected object in the Business Integration view, the References view shows all of the artifacts that reference it and all the artifacts that it references.

Select an artifact in the References view to focus on that artifact and to show its relationships to other artifacts. Click the Lock View button

to lock the References view so that selecting objects in the Business Integration view will not affect the References view.


Outline view

The Outline view works with the resource that is opened in the editor pane. For some editors, including the assembly editor, the Outline view operates in two modes: Show Outline, which is a navigation tree view, and Show Overview, which is a graphical view.

The Outline view is not open by default. To open the Outline view, do one of the following steps: :

To explain the Outline view, assume that we have an assembly diagram open in the assembly editor.

The Outline view in the Show Outline mode, displays all the elements in the assembly diagram that are open in the editor pane. When you click an element in the Outline view, the editor pane and Properties view are synchronized to show the selected element.

You can invoke actions from the elements in the Outline view; select an element and right-click to see the actions that are available.

Click the Show Overview button,

, on the upper-right corner of the Outline window to change the view into a graphical view of assembly diagram that is open in the editor pane. The complete assembly diagram is displayed as a miniature model in the Outline view. The gray box is the part of the assembly diagram that is visible in the assembly editor. Use your mouse to drag the gray box to the part of the assembly diagram that you want to see in the assembly editor. This is an easy way for you to shift the editor to the part of the diagram that you are interested in.


Quick Outline

The Quick Outline works with the resource that is opened in the editor pane. You can use the Quick Outline to quickly examine and navigate the elements in the resource of interest.

You can invoke the Quick Outline in several ways:

In the Quick Outline, you can see a navigation tree of the elements in the selected resources. When you select an element in the navigation tree view, you set the focus to that element in the editor pane.


Visual Snippets view

The Visual Snippets view is used to compose customized behavior in the form of Java code.


Build Activities view

You can use the Build Activities view to help you manage builds. You can select build activities for both automatic and manual builds. You can also open immediate manual builds that are independent of those build activity selections. You can use the Build Activities view to show the build and server status of business integration projects as well as the operational state of supported servers.


Properties view

When you use the Properties view with the Business Integration view or Physical Resources view, you can see information about a selected artifact.

When you use the Properties view with editors, you can modify properties of selected elements in the editor.


Problems view

Use the Problems view to debug errors.

For example, when you click an error for a component in a module assembly, the assembly diagram and the component that contains the error is highlighted.

To see additional help for the problem message in the form of an explanation and recommended actions, select the message and press F1.

In some contexts, quick fixes are available. You can right-click an error or warning and then select Quick Fix from the menu. If there are quick fixes available, the program lists them for you. Select the one you want to apply and press Enter. The fix is applied and the warning or error marker disappears.


Servers view

Use the Servers view to create servers. You will use the view for testing and deploying business integration applications.

Workspaces


Related tasks:
Opening the Business Integration perspective
Filtering in the Business Integration perspective
Create new projects