TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks Overview

TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks is an Eclipse-based integration development environment that is used to design, develop, and test ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks applications. The studio provides a workbench in which you can create, manage, and navigate resources in your workspace. A workspace is the central location on your computer where all data files are stored.

The following table introduces the workbench UI elements highlighted in the image:
UI Element Description
Menu Contains menu items such as File, Edit, Navigate, Search, Project, Run, Window, and Help.
Toolbar Contains buttons for frequently used commands such as:
  • New
  • Save
  • Enable/Disable Business Studio Capabilities
  • Create a new BusinessWorks Application Module
  • Debug
  • Run
Perspectives Contains an initial set and layout of views that are required to perform a certain task. TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks launches 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 top right-hand side of the workbench and select the perspective to open.
Views Lists the resources and helps you navigate within 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.
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.
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.