Downloading from a shared file system
To use a user-defined pattern in
your IBM® Integration Bus projects, download
and install the pattern archive for the
user-defined pattern from a pattern community site that is a shared
file system by using the file URL or by browsing for a file.
Before you begin
Before you
can complete this task, you must have access to the pattern community
site that contains the pattern archive that
you want to download.
About this task
- If you want to download and install the pattern archive for the user-defined pattern
from a pattern community website by using a helper application and
you have more than one IBM Integration Toolkit installed
on your workstation, the helper application is for the IBM Integration Toolkit that you most recently installed.
If you want to control which IBM Integration Toolkit is
extended with your pattern, download the file to disk, complete the
following instructions, then start the IBM Integration Toolkit that you want to extend.
- If you want to stop the download process, click Cancel,
the pattern is not installed and the tasks are rolled back. If you
click Cancel again, the Download
and Install Pattern window closes.
Procedure
In the Patterns Explorer view, click Download. The
Download and Install Pattern window
opens.
- If you want to download the pattern by using the file URL,
type in, or copy and paste, the complete URL for the pattern archive into the File
Location field, click Download.
The progress monitor starts to run and the status line shows the individual
tasks that are being performed.
- If you want to download the pattern by browsing your local
file system:
- Click Browse. The Select The
Pattern Archive To Install window opens.
- Navigate to the pattern archive that
you want to use, click Open.
- Click Download. The progress monitor starts
to run and the status line shows the individual tasks that are being
performed.
Results
The new user-defined pattern is displayed in the Patterns Explorer view.
What to do next
You can now use the user-defined pattern in
your projects; see Using patterns.