Integrating with WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition

You can extend a WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition workbench with this product. This integrates the Message Brokers Toolkit into the WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition workbench, and the Broker Administration perspective and the Broker Application Development perspective are available in WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition.

You must have the appropriate supported level of WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition to complete the integration:

You must also check that you have installed the correct level of the Message Brokers Toolkit. The Version 5.0 toolkit is compatible with WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition Version 5.0, and the Version 5.1 toolkit is compatible with WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition Version 5.1; all other combinations are invalid. You cannot install both versions of the Message Brokers Toolkit on one system.

For further details about toolkit versions, refer to Different versions of the Message Brokers Toolkit.

If you want to integrate the two products, complete this sequence of actions (these are applicable to both 5.0 and 5.1):

Refer to Applying fixes for detailed instructions for upgrades to both WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker.

If you access both the WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition and the Message Brokers Toolkit workbenches, you can share resources, subject to the restrictions described in Sharing resources.

Linking the two workbenches

If you want the Broker Administration perspective and Broker Application Development perspective to be available in the WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition workbench, and you did not ask for this link to be made during WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker installation, you can create links in the WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition workbench after installation:
  1. Navigate to Help > Software Updates > Update Manager.
  2. In the lower left Feature Updates view, click My Computer. This displays the accessible disks and the directories on those disks.
  3. Navigate through the directory structure to the folder in which you have installed WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker.
  4. Locate the folders evtoolkit and ibtoolkit. These contain the extension points for WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker. Open each folder, right-click the extension point icon and select Link Product Extension.

    Do not link to the extension points evdeps and ibdeps.

Sharing resources

If you have installed both the WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition and Message Brokers Toolkit workbenches, you can share resources if you maintain them in a shared directory or repository. In each workbench, resources (such as message flows) are created in or imported into a specific directory.

A default directory is initially set, and this varies for each workbench (it depends on the installation location). If you want to share resources in a common directory, do not use the default directory shown in either workbench, but enter a common directory and ensure all your users know where to find the WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker resources.

Alternatively, you can use a shared repository, such as CVS.

When you open a workbench, you might have to import a resource that you want to work with from the directory or repository, if it is not already in the workspace specific to that instance of the workbench.

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