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Chapter 2 Adapter Infrastructure Tools : TIBCO Business Studio

TIBCO Business Studio
The TIBCO ActiveMatrix development tools consist of TIBCO Business Studio and a set of ActiveMatrix plug-ins. For an introduction to TIBCO Business Studio, see Workbench User Guide in TIBCO Business Studio help. To view help, select Help > Help Contents on the Menu.
Figure 6 TIBCO Business Studio Main Window
The Workbench window contains the following areas: Menu, Toolbar, Project Explorer Panel, Outline Panel, Editor Panel, and Views Panel.
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 the 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 added to the composite. Other editors allow you to configure shared resources and service assemblies.
Provides an overview of the Composite Editor canvas, allowing to easily navigate from one part of a composite to another.
The Outline view also displays a content tree 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 elements are selected in the composite as well.
Appears 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.
To open a view, select Window > Show View > View.
ActiveMatrix Resource Wizard
The starting point for creating all types of ActiveMatrix projects and assets is the ActiveMatrix Resource Wizard. The resource wizard allows you to select wizards to create:
Composite Element Editors
Composite elements are configured in property sheets accessed through the Properties view.
Figure 7 shows an example of the Properties view.
Figure 7 Component Property Sheet
Debugger
The TIBCO Business Studio debugger provides a testing environment for stepping through composite elements and determining the sources of errors. Figure 8 shows the debugger in the process of debugging a sample HelloWorld composite. Breakpoints have been set before and after the Java component executes, and the debugger is stopped at the breakpoint. In the Variables view on the top-right, the value of the request is being examined.
Figure 8 Debugger
 
Service Assembly Editor
In order to be deployed, composites must be transformed into service units and service assemblies. Figure 9 shows a sample service assembly editor view.
Figure 9 Service Assembly Editor
 
 

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