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Broker Application Development perspective
The Broker Application Development perspective is the default perspective that is displayed when you start the WebSphere® Message Broker Toolkit.
Typically, you complete the following tasks in this perspective:
- Creating applications, libraries, and Message Broker projects.
- Developing message flows and message sets.
- Enqueuing and dequeuing test and production messages, which is useful when you are debugging message flows.
- Creating user-defined nodes and user-defined node projects.
The following figure shows the Broker Application Development perspective of the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit. The TextMessenger.msgflow file in the Broker Development view is open in the Message Flow editor.

The Broker Application Development perspective provides several views to navigate, browse, and update your resources.
Editor view
The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit shows the Message Flow editor by default for working with the content of message flow files.
The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit provides specialized editors by default for working with the content of message flow and message set files. See Editors in the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit for more information.
Outline view
Click the Overview
Mode icon to switch to the Overview
view, which provides a useful summary for large, complex message flows
because it shows a small-scale version of the flow. Click the Overview
Mode icon again to return to the Outline view.
Brokers view
Use the Brokers view to create and work with brokers in the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit. Brokers that are created on the local system are automatically displayed in the Brokers view. Remote brokers can be added to the Brokers view. When you open or switch to the Brokers view, the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit attempts to connect to brokers on the local system and to any remote brokers that have been defined; see Brokers view.
Properties view
The Properties view displays the properties for the node that is selected in the Editor view. The Properties are grouped and displayed on tabs, which are listed on the left of the Properties view.
Problems view
Deployment Log view
The Deployment Log view shows the result of deploying brokers that are in the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit; see Deployment Log view.
Data Project Explorer view
Data Source Explorer view
Patterns Explorer view
Tasks view
Broker Application Development perspective toolbar
- Click Customize Perspective dialog box is displayed. . The
- Click the Command Groups Availability tab. This tab displays the available command groups and their corresponding menu bar details and toolbar details.
- Click a command group name to display its toolbar details. The available command groups and toolbar details for the icons that you might want to use in the perspective are shown in the Available command groups table.
- Select the command groups that you want to add, and click OK. The toolbar displays the icons from the selected command groups.
Available command groups | Toolbar details: icon | Toolbar details: label and action |
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ESQL Actions | ![]() |
Create a New Message Flow ESQL File |
Mapping Actions | ![]() |
Create a Message Map File |
Message Creation | ![]() |
Create a New Message Set |
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Create a New Message Definition File | |
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Create a New Message Category File | |
Message Flow Element Creation | ![]() |
Create a New Broker Schema |
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Create a New Message Flow | |
Message Set | ![]() |
Generate a Web Service Definition File |
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Generate an XML Schema from a Message Definition File |