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Chapter 2 Working with TIBCO Business Studio : Starting TIBCO Business Studio

Starting TIBCO Business Studio
 
When you start TIBCO Business Studio for the first time after installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Service Engine for Lotus Notes, ensure that you use the -clean option.
To start TIBCO Business Studio:
1.
select Start > All Programs > TIBCO > TIBCO Business Studio 2.2 > TIBCO Business Studio
or
run the executable from the command line
AMX_HOME\BusinessStudio\TIBCOBusinessStudio.exe
run AMX_HOME/BusinessStudio/TIBCOBusinessStudio
2.
3.
The first time you run TIBCO Business Studio, it displays a Welcome screen. Dismiss the screen by clicking the Close button in the title bar.
Figure 2 TIBCO Business Studio Main Window
The screen contains the following area and views:
Menu   See Help > Help Contents > Workbench User Guide.
Toolbar  See Help > Help Contents > Workbench User Guide.
Project Explorer  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.
Editor  Displays editors for the objects currently being edited. 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 can add to the composite. Other editors allow you to configure shared resources and service assemblies.
Outline  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 element 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.
Views  Displays under the Editor Area. Contains the following views:
Properties: 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.
You open a view by selecting Window > Show View.

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