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Chapter 3 Working with TIBCO Business Studio : Starting TIBCO Business Studio

Starting TIBCO Business Studio
To start TIBCO Business Studio, follow these steps:
When you start TIBCO Business Studio for the first time after installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Service Engine for PeopleSoft, make sure you use the -clean option.
1.
From the Start menu, select All Programs > TIBCO > TIBCO Business Studio 2.2 > TIBCO Business Studio.
or
From the command line, run TIBCO_HOME\BusinessStudio\TIBCOBusinessStudio.exe.
Run TIBCO_HOME/BusinessStudio/TIBCOBusinessStudio.sh.
2.
The Workspace Launcher dialog appears, as shown in Figure 19. Accept the default workspace or browse to create a new workspace. Click the OK button.
Figure 19 Workspace Launcher
3.
The Workbench window appears, as shown in Figure 20. For the first time a new workspace is selected, a Welcome screen displays on the window.
The Layout of the Workbench Window
The Workbench window contains the following areas: Menu, Toolbar, Project Explorer Panel, Outline Panel, Editor Panel, and Views Panel. For detailed information, refer to Help > Help Content > Workbench User Guide.
Figure 20 The Workbench Window
Contains menu items such us File, Edit, Navigate, Project, Run, Window, and Help.
Contains buttons for the most frequently used commands.
Displays a tree containing all the project resources such as project folders, shared resource definition files, WSDL files, composite files, service assembly files, and so on.
Displays editors for the objects currently being edited. You can switch between editors by clicking tabs at the top of the Editor area. The Composite Editor contains a canvas on which you can drop elements and a palette that organizes the elements that you have added to the composite. Other editors allow you to configure shared resources and service assemblies.
Provides an overview of the Composite Editor canvas. You can easily navigate from one part of a composite to another.
The Outline view also displays a content tree structure that contains the composite elements inside the composite. In this view you can delete the contents of the composite. When you select a composite element in the Outline tree, the corresponding artifact in the composite becomes selected.
Displays under the Editor Area and contains the following views by default:
Displays property sheets for editing composites and composite elements. When you select a composite or composite element in the Composite Editor canvas, this view shows the properties of the selected object in a vertical tabbed notebook.
Displays validation and other errors.
Lists UDDI registries and the WSDL files returned from searching a registry.
You open a view by selecting Window > Show View.

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