TIBCO Business Studio Overview

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

TIBCO Business Studio provide 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 following table introduces the workbench UI elements highlighted in the image:
Sl. No. UI Element Description
1. Menu Contains menu items such as File, Edit, 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
  • Debug
  • Run
3. Perspectives Contains an initial set and layout of views must perform a certain task. TIBCO Business Studio opens the Design perspective by default. Use the DESIGN perspective when designing a process and the Debug perspective when testing and debugging a process. To change the perspective, select Window > Open Perspective > perspective_name from the main menu. Or, you can click the icon at the upper right-hand side of the workbench and select the perspective to open.
4. Views Displays resources and allow for navigation in the workbench. For example, the Project Explorer view displays the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks applications, modules, and other resources in your workspace, and the Properties view displays the properties for the selected resource. To open a view, select Window > Show View > view_name from the main menu.
5. Editors 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 on a process (MortgageAppConsumer.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 provide quick access to activities when configuring a process.