Redeploying a flow

Before you start

Complete the following tasks:

This topic tells you how to edit a flow to fix a problem that you have discovered while you are debugging and how to redeploy the flow.

To redeploy the flow:

  1. Switch to the Flow Debug perspective.
  2. Detach the debugger from the flow engine by clicking the Detach from the Selected Flow Engines icon Detach Flow on the toolbar.
  3. Switch to the Broker Application Development perspective.
  4. Edit the flow in the Message Flow editor and save your changes.
  5. Switch to the Broker Administration perspective.
  6. Double-click the bar file (Broker Archive) that contains your flow, to edit it. Remove the flow, then add it again, and save your changes. See Adding message flows and message sets to a broker archive for more details.
  7. Deploy your bar file by dragging it from the Broker Administration Navigator view and dropping it onto the execution group in the Domains view. Check the event log for messages to make sure that the deploy was successful.
  8. Switch to the Flow Debug perspective.
  9. Click the Attach to Flow Runtime icon Attach to Flow Runtime on the toolbar and complete the Attach to the Flow Engine wizard as you did before, as described in Attaching to the flow engine.
Related concepts
Flow debugger overview
Related tasks
Debugging a message flow
Terminating a flow instance
Adding message flows and message sets to a broker archive
Attaching to the flow engine
Detaching from the flow engine
Related reference
Flow debugger shortcuts
Flow debugger icons and symbols