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(Deprecated) Routing with Selectors

To visually determine where to route operations within the IBM Integration Designer family of tools, use the selector editor.

The selector editor presents a tabular display of potential destinations. Use this tool to graphically select them, and specify which ones to use and when.

Selectors can only be deployed to the IBM BPM.

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• Selectors
  The selector editor is used to route an operation from a client component to one of several possible target components.
• (Deprecated) Planning for the future with the selector editor
  When you are designing your business solution, it is sometimes a good idea to include a selector even though it is not immediately going to be used.
• (Deprecated) Choosing components without using a selector
  When used with time-based routing, the selector is, in essence, a scheduling tool. You use it to route an operation to a component for a specific period of time. To achieve the same results on a daily, or a periodic basis, you can use a combination of a business process and a rule set as described here.
• (Deprecated) Creating a selector
  This topic provides instructions on how to create a selector.
• (Deprecated) Refactoring a selector
  When you refactor parts of your selector, dependencies on those parts are automatically and universally updated throughout the product as a whole.
• Use a selector to delegate
  The selector can also be used as a tool for general delegation as described in this topic.
• Replacing an existing component with a selector
  

  If you are making changes to an existing business integration solution, you may find it useful to replace an existing component with a selector.

• Manage multi-operational interfaces
  Sometimes the component destination of a selector may not need to implement all of the operations in an interface, so here is a possible solution.

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