TIBCO EBX® provides Java developers with tools to facilitate use of the EBX® API, as well as integration with development environments.
To activate the development tools, run EBX® in development mode. This is specified in the EBX® main configuration file EBX® run mode using the property backend.mode=development.
When editing the data model directly as an XML Schema document without using the data-modeling tool provided by EBX®, you can refresh it without restarting the application server.
In the 'Administration' area, select Select > Technical configuration > Development tools > Refresh updated data models (or Refresh all data models).
Since the operation is critical regarding data consistency, refreshing the data models acquires a global exclusive lock on the repository. This means that most other operations (data access and update, validation, etc.) will wait until the completion of the data model refresh.
The Java types specified by Java bindings can be generated from a dataset or a data model, by selecting Actions > Generate Java in the navigation pane.
The field 'Data path' is displayed in the documentation pane of a node. This field indicates the path to the node, which can be useful when writing XPath formulas.
This field is always available to administrators.
The 'Web component link generator' service is a user interface designed to create HTTP requests that call EBX® web components. To launch this service, select Actions > Web component link generator in the navigation pane.