Development Environment

TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks provides a workbench that can be used to create, manage, and navigate resources in your workspace. A workspace is the central location on your machine where all the data files are stored.

TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks Workbench

The workbench consists of the following attributes:

Attribute Description
Menu Contains menu items such as File, Edit, Navigate, Search, Project, Run, Window, and Help.
Toolbar Contains buttons for the frequently used commands such as New, Save, Enable/Disable Business Studio capabilities, Create a new Application Module, Create a new Shared Module, Debug, Run, and so on.
Perspectives Contain an initial set and layout of views that are needed to perform a certain task. TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks opens the Design perspective by default. You can change the perspective from the menu Window > Open Perspective > <perspective_name>.
Views Display resources and allow for navigation in the workbench. For example, the Project Explorer view displays the applications, modules, and other resources in your workspace, and the Properties view displays the properties for the selected resource. You can open a view from the menu Window > Show View > <view_name>.
Editors Provide a canvas to configure, edit, or browse a resource. Double-click a resource in a view to open the appropriate editor for the selected resource. For example, double-click a process (MortgageAppConsumer.bwp) in the Project Explorer view to open the process in the editor.
Palettes Palettes group activities that perform similar tasks and provide quick access to activities when building a process. For more information, see Palettes.