This section describes some of the optional tasks you may want
to perform in your tooling framework to make your experience with
the tools more efficient.
This section describes how to open and close perspectives.
Do the following to open a perspective in the workbench:
- Select Window > Open Perspective > Other from the
menu bar of your workbench.
- At the "Select Perspective" dialog, choose the perspective you
want to open and click OK.
Besides the System Manager perspective that you use to
work with integration components, you might also want to explore
the perspectives described in the following sections:
This perspective allows you to work directly with the metadata
files that represent project materials, such as integration
component libraries. Figure 35
shows the Resource perspective open where the
.xsd file that represents the business object has been
opened from the Navigator view to display its contents in
the Editor view.
Figure 35. Resource
perspective

- Important:
- The metadata files exposed through the Resource
perspective define the WebSphere Business Integration components.
The System Manager perspective provides a way to work with those
components safely through interfaces. If you manipulate metadata
files directly you run the risk of ruining the component
definition. It is recommended that you only work with component
metadata files if you understand their structures very well, or in
situations where you are interacting with Technical Support to
troubleshoot a definition and are asked to.
This perspective provides editors and views that assist with
authoring Java files. Although you perform most Java programming in
the designer tools, you occasionally have to write external
components such as data handlers, or write utility classes. In
these cases, this Java perspective can be very useful. The
following figure shows the Java perspective:
Figure 36. Java perspective

You can do the following to close perspectives:
- Select Window > Close Perspective to close the
currently active perspective.
- Select Window > Close All Perspectives to close all
currently open perspectives.
- Right-click the icon for a perspective in the perspective
shortcut bar and choose Close from the context menu to close
that perspective.
- Right-click the icon for a perspective in the perspective
shortcut bar and choose Close All from the context menu to
close all open perspectives.
You can control the panes that are displayed in the WebSphere
WorkBench and WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration
Edition perspectives.
Do the following to show a view:
- Select Window > Show View > Other.
- Expand the folder for the view group, such as WebSphere
Business Integration Adapter Monitor Category.
- Select the particular view, such as Fault Queue
Manager.
- Click OK.
To close a view, do one of the following:
- Right-click the title bar of the view and choose Close
from the context menu.
- Click the close button in the title bar of the view.
You can customize a perspective to include the perspectives,
views, wizards, and plug-in interfaces that you want so that you
can minimize the number of times you have to open elements you use
frequently and close elements you do not need. Do the following to
customize the currently active perspective:
- Select Window > Customize Perspective from the menu
bar.
- Click on the node you want to customize to expand it.
- Enable and disable checkboxes for the node elements. Table 25 lists the customizable
perspective nodes and the effect that enabling them has.
Table 25. Customizable
perspective nodes
Customize
perspective node |
Result |
File >
New |
Adds or
subtracts items from the File > New menu. |
Window
> Open Perspective |
Adds or
subtracts perspectives from the Window > Open Perspective
menu. |
Window
> Show View |
Adds or
subtracts views from the Perspective > Show View
menu. |
Other |
Adds or
subtracts from the menu bar and toolbar. For instance, you must
enable the ClearCase checkbox to display the
ClearCase menu. |
You can save a perspective configuration to preserve
customizations you have made. Do the following to save a
perspective:
- Select Window > Save Perspective As from the tooling
framework menu bar.
- Type a name for the perspective in the Name field.
- Click OK.
By default your tooling framework opens to the Resource
perspective. If you primarily use the tooling framework to work
with integration components, you may want to make System Manager
the default perspective. Do the following to do so:
- Select Window > Preferences from the menu bar of the
tooling framework.
- Expand the Workbench node.
- Select the Perspectives node under the Workbench
node.
- Select the System Managerfrom the Available
Perspectives list.
- Click Make Default.
- Click OK.
To set your System Manager preferences, do the following:
- Select Window > Preferences from the menu bar of the
workbench.
- Select System Manager Preferences and do the following
to configure the available preference options:
- If you do not want to be prompted when you delete a component
from an integration component library, enable the checkbox for the
component type in the "Do not confirm object deletion" pane.
- Enable the Deep Copy checkbox if you want to copy a
component's dependencies along with the component when you perform
a copy operation on it.
If Deep Copy is enabled and you copy a business object
definition from one library to another, then all of the child
business objects it contains are copied as well, for example. If
Deep Copy is not enabled, however, and you copy a business
object definition from one library to another, then only the
business object itself is copied.
For more information on dependencies, see Dependencies and
references.
- Type the name and path of a file in the Log File field,
or click Browse to select a file. When errors occur in
System Manager, the error information is written to the file
specified. Type a number in the Max Size field to specify
the maximum size of the log file in megabytes.
- Click Restore Defaults to set the preferences elements
to their default values.
Figure 37 shows the System
Manager preferences interface.
Figure 37. System Manager
preferences

- The "Broker Preferences" interface allows you to configure
System Manager to work with the supported WebSphere message
brokers.
Do the following to set your broker preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and then select
Broker Preferences.
- Either type the full path to the WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker
importer utility in the Specify the Integrator broker importer
path field or click Browse to select the directory.
- Either type the full path to the WebSphere Business Integration
Message Broker importer utility in the Specify the Message
broker importer path field or click Browse to select the
directory.
- Either type the full path to the Eclipse workspace directory
for WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker in the Specify
the Message broker workspace directory field or click
Browse to select the directory.
Figure 38 shows the "Broker
Preferences" interface:
Figure 38. Broker
preferences

- Note:
- The "Compiler" preferences interface, the "Deployment Settings"
interface, and the "System Monitor Settings" interfaces are for use
when using WebSphere Interchange Server as the integration broker.
They are not relevant for other integration brokers.
- Click Apply to save your preferences and continue
working in the "Preferences" dialog, or click OK to save
your preferences and exit the dialog.
