TIBCO Business Studio Overview

TIBCO Business Studio is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment that is used to design, develop, and test ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks applications.

TIBCO Business Studio provides a workbench in which you can create, manage, and navigate resources in your workspace. A workspace is the central location on your machine where all data files are stored.

The workbench consists of:
  1. Menu: contains menu items such as File, Edit, Diagram, Navigate, Search, Project, Run, Window, and Help.
  2. Toolbar: contains buttons for frequently used commands such as New , Save , Enable/Disable Business Studio Capabilities , Create a new BusinessWorks Application Module , Create a new BusinessWorks Shared Module , Debug , Run , and so on.
  3. Perspective: contains an initial set and layout of views that are required to perform a certain task. TIBCO Business Studio launches the Modeling perspective by default. You can change the perspective from the menu Window > Open Perspective > Perspective_Name.
  4. View: displays resources. For example, the Project Explorer view displays the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks applications, modules, and other resources in your workspace; the Properties view displays the properties for the selected resource. You can open a view from the menu Window > Show View > View_Name.
  5. Editor: provides 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 an ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks process (DemoWorkflow.bwp) in the Project Explorer view to open the process in the editor.
  6. Palette: contains a set of widgets and a palette library. A palette groups activities that perform similar tasks and provides quick access to activities when configuring a process.