Project Panel

A project contains resources that implement the enterprise integration. This includes services (producers and consumers of information), any business logic that may be applied to that information, and deployment information.

By default, the project panel allows you to view the Project Display or Global Variables Display. When used in conjunction with other projects, the panel may be used for other purposes, for example, in conjunction with the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks tester.

Project Display

With the Project tab selected, the project panel displays the project tree. This includes the top-level (root) folder and the hierarchy of resources. The hierarchy of folders and resources corresponds to the hierarchy of folders and files in the project folder.

Following figure illustrates an example project, ProcessNewComputer, in the project panel. Multiple TIBCO products were used to create the integration project: it contains two ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks process definitions (ProcessOrder and ProcessSoap) and a Siebel adapter (SBLAccount).

Project tree in the project

Global Variables Display

Global variables are associated with each project. To display them, click the Global Variables tab of the project panel. Clicking the pencil icon displays the global variable editor. For more information, see Global Variables.

Global variables in project panel

Resources

Resources are the components of a project. A simple TIBCO Designer resource corresponds to an object in a TIBCO application, such as an adapter configuration, an adapter service, a process definition, or an FTP activity.

Resources can be complex and contain other resources, much like a folder can contain other folders on your computer's file system. For example, an adapter configuration may contain multiple folders with multiple publisher or subscriber service resources.

Each top-level resource (for example, each adapter configuration) corresponds to a file in the project’s hierarchy of files in the project directory. This design allows developers to use a source control system and to check out only the top-level resources they are working with from a source control system, thus sharing their work.

Most resources have context-sensitive help available for the configuration of that resource. Right-click on the resource and choose What Is This? from the popup menu for more information on configuring the resource.

If TIBCO Designer cannot determine the type of a resource, it displays it as a special icon. This can mean, for example, that the palette for that resource is not installed, that the file is not really part of your project, or that it has a misleading extension.

For example, source control systems may hide files from the user. If you open a TIBCO Designer project that was under source control without the revision control system, these files will become visible and treated as unknown resources.