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Team development in Integration Designer
IBM Integration Designer provides tools to help teams share resources and collaborate effectively. For teams to work effectively, the environment should be set up appropriately and team members should understand the characteristics of the software configuration management and versioning systems they are applying.
Reusing artifacts
Integration Designer enables developers to reuse existing items, both within and across projects.
For example, if you know several artifacts already exist that you and other developers need, you can access and reuse those items by including them in a library. You or others can then reuse those artifacts in other modules. To use artifacts from a library, set up a dependency from that module to the library using the Integration Designer dependency editor. You can set up dependencies on a library from any number of modules. To learn more about modules and libraries, see "Libraries" in the related links.
Work with the Process Center
The Process Center includes a repository for all processes, services, and other assets created in IBM BPM authoring environments. You can use the Process Center repository to share artifacts with other users who are developing process applications and toolkits.
The Process Center Console provides a location in which to create and maintain high-level library items such as process applications and toolkits. Administrators who do not actively work in the designer view can use the Process Center Console to provide a framework in which BPM analysts and developers can build their processes and underlying implementations. Another primary task for administrators is managing access to the Process Center repository by setting up the appropriate authorization for users and groups.
Software configuration management systems
You can use Integration Designer with software configuration management (SCM) systems.
You can view or change the preferences for available version control systems under Window > Preferences > Team. For more information about working with SCM systems, see "Using remote software configuration management systems“ in the related links.
- Perspectives and views for team development in Integration Designer
Several perspectives and views in IBM Integration Designer are useful for collaborative development.- Modules and staging modules in Integration Designer
- Team development with mediations
When you create a mediation flow, you have the option to optimize the mediation flow for team development.
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Use software configuration management systems
Libraries