Starting TIBCO Business Studio

To start TIBCO Business Studio, complete the following steps:

1.	From the Start menu, select All Programs > TIBCO > TIBCO Business Studio version_number ActiveMatrix SOA Edition > Studio for Designers.

From the command line, run TIBCO_HOME\studio\version_number\eclipse\TIBCOBusinessStudio.exe.

2.	The Workspace Launcher dialog appears. Accept the default workspace or browse to create a new workspace, and then click the OK button.

The Workbench window appears. The first time a new workspace is selected, a Welcome screen is displayed in the window.

The Layout of the Workbench Window

The Workbench window contains the following: Menu, Toolbar, Project Explorer Panel, Outline Panel, Editor Panel, and Views Panel. For detailed information, select Help > Help Content.

Figure 1 The Workbench Window

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Contains menu items such as File, Edit, Navigate, Search, Project, Run, Window, and Help.

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Toolbar

Contains buttons for the most frequently used commands.

•	Project Explorer Panel

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 Panel

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.

•	Outline Panel

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 is selected.

•	Views Panel

Displayed under the Editor area and contains the following views by default:

−	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.

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Problems

Displays validation and other errors.

−	Registries

Lists UDDI registries and the WSDL files returned from searching a registry.

To open a view, select Window > Show View.