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WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit

The WebSphere® Message Broker Toolkit is an integrated development environment and graphical user interface based on the Eclipse platform.

Application developers work in separate instances of the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit to develop resources associated with message flows. The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit connects to one or more brokers to which the message flows are deployed.

You can install the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit only on Windows and Linux on x86. You can only view and interact with brokers that you have created in WebSphere Message Broker Version 8.0.

The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit

When you start the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, a single window is displayed. This window is the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, which contains one or more perspectives.

A perspective is a collection of views and editors that you use to complete a specific task, or work with specific types of resource. The two significant perspectives in the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit are the Broker Application Development perspective for application development, and the Debug perspective for debugging message flows. The first time that you start the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, the Broker Application Development perspective is displayed.

An additional stand-alone component, the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer, is supplied for advanced administrative users, and enables additional administration tasks that you cannot perform in the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit.

The following figure shows the Broker Application Development perspective with a message flow open in the Message Flow editor on Windows.

A screen capture of the Broker Application Development perspective in the toolkit.

Accessing context-sensitive help

The Help view provides context-sensitive help throughout the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit. You can display the Help view for most aspects of the user interface (for example, on the Broker Development view, the Message Flow editor, or a properties page) by bringing focus to the object and pressing F1 (on Windows) or SHIFT+F1 (on Linux). The Related Topics page shows description and help topics that are related to the selected object. The About section shows context help that is specific to your current context, and the Dynamic Help section shows some search results that might be related.

The following figure shows the Related Topics page of the Help view that is displayed when you press F1 in the Broker Development view.A screen capture of the Related page of the Help view with the Broker Development view selected.

Use the other pages in the Help view to view and search the contents of the information center. The All Topics page shows the table of contents of all the books in the information center. The Index provides an index of keywords of all the books in the information center. You can enter a keyword in the text field on the Index page to highlight the best match in the list of keywords. You can use the Search page to locate topics, samples, and remote documents using keywords in a search query. You can bookmark topics and other documents of interest, and view them in the Bookmarks page.

For a basic introduction to using the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, see the IBM® Redbooks® publication WebSphere Message Broker Basics.

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