Using Eclipse-based workbenches

This section describes some of the optional tasks you may want to perform in your tooling framework to make your experience with the tools more efficient.

Opening and closing perspectives

This section describes how to open and close perspectives.

Opening perspectives

Do the following to open a perspective in the workbench:

  1. Select Window > Open Perspective > Other from the menu bar of your workbench.
  2. At the "Select Perspective" dialog, choose the perspective you want to open and click OK.

Besides the System Manager and Integrated Test Environment perspectives that you use to work with WebSphere InterChange Server integration components, you might also want to explore the perspectives described in the following sections:

Resource perspective

This perspective allows you to work directly with the meta-data files that represent project materials, such as integration component libraries. Figure 25 shows the Resource perspective open where the .cwt file that represents the ContactSync collaboration template has been opened from the Navigator view to display its contents in the Editor view.

Figure 25. Resource perspective


Important:
The meta-data files exposed through the Resource perspective define the WebSphere Business Integration Express for Item Sync integration components. The System Manager perspective provides a way to work with those components safely through interfaces. If you manipulate meta-data files directly you run the risk of ruining the component definition. It is recommended that you only work with component meta-data files if you understand their structures very well, or in situations where you are interacting with Technical Support to troubleshoot a definition and are asked to.

Closing perspectives

You can do the following to close perspectives:

Showing and closing views

You can control the panes that are displayed in the WebSphere WorkBench and WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition perspectives.

Showing views

Do the following to show a view:

  1. Select Window > Show View > Other.
  2. Expand the folder for the view group, such as ICS Control View.
  3. Select the particular view, such as InterChange Server Expresss and click OK.

Closing views

To close a view, do one of the following:

Customizing perspectives

You can customize a perspective to include the perspectives, views, wizards, and plug-in interfaces that you want so that you can minimize the number of times you have to open elements you use frequently and close elements you do not need. Do the following to customize the currently active perspective:

  1. Select Window > Customize Perspective from the menu bar.
  2. Click on the node you want to customize to expand it.
  3. Enable and disable checkboxes for the node elements. Table 9 lists the customizable perspective nodes and the effect that enabling them has.


Table 9. Customizable perspective nodes
Customize perspective node Result
File > New Adds or subtracts items from the File > New menu.
Window > Open Perspective Adds or subtracts perspectives from the Window > Open Perspective menu.
Window > Show View Adds or subtracts views from the Perspective > Show View menu.
Other Adds or subtracts from the menu bar and toolbar. For instance, you must enable the ClearCase checkbox to display the ClearCase menu.

Saving perspectives

You can save a perspective configuration to preserve customizations you have made. Do the following to save a perspective:

  1. Select Window > Save Perspective As from the tooling framework menu bar.
  2. Type a name for the perspective in the Name field.
  3. Click OK.

Setting the default perspective

By default your tooling framework opens to the Resource perspective. If you primarily use the tooling framework to work with integration components, you may want to make one of the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server Express perspectives the default. Do the following to do so:

  1. Select Window > Preferences from the menu bar of the tooling framework.
  2. Expand the Workbench node.
  3. Select the Perspectives node under the Workbench node.
  4. Select the desired perspective (such as System Manager) from the Available Perspectives list.
  5. Click Make Default.
  6. Click OK.

Configuring System Manager preferences

To set your System Manager preferences, do the following:

  1. Select Window > Preferences from the menu bar of the workbench.
  2. Select CSM Preferences.
  3. Do the following to configure the available preference options:
  4. Click Apply to save your preferences and continue working in the "Preferences" dialog, or click OK to save your preferences and exit the dialog.

Figure 26 shows the System Manager preferences interface.

Figure 26. System Manager preferences


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