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:
- Select Window > Open Perspective > Other from the menu
bar of your workbench.
- 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:
- Select Window > Close Perspective to close the currently
active perspective.
- Select Window > Close All Perspectives to close all
currently open perspectives
- Right-click the icon for a perspective in the perspective shortcut bar and
choose Close from the context menu to close that
perspective.
- Right-click the icon for a perspective in the perspective shortcut bar and
choose Close All from the context menu to close all open
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:
- Select Window > Show View > Other.
- Expand the folder for the view group, such as ICS Control
View.
- Select the particular view, such as InterChange Server Expresss and
click OK.
Closing views
To close a view, do one of the following:
- Right-click the title bar of the view and choose Close from the
context menu.
- Click the close button in the title bar of the view.
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:
- Select Window > Customize Perspective from the menu
bar.
- Click on the node you want to customize to expand it.
- 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:
- Select Window > Save Perspective As from the tooling
framework menu bar.
- Type a name for the perspective in the Name field.
- 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:
- Select Window > Preferences from the menu bar of the tooling
framework.
- Expand the Workbench node.
- Select the Perspectives node under the Workbench
node.
- Select the desired perspective (such as System Manager) from
the Available Perspectives list.
- Click Make Default.
- Click OK.
Configuring System Manager preferences
To set your System Manager preferences, do the following:
- Select Window > Preferences from the menu bar of the
workbench.
- Select CSM Preferences.
- Do the following to configure the available preference options:
- If you do not want to be prompted when you delete a component from an
integration component library, enable the checkbox for the component type in
the "Do not confirm object deletion" pane.
This option affects when you delete components in System Manager, you only
delete them in the local file system workspace.
- Note:
- Enabling the Unresolved Flows checkbox does not have any effect on whether or
not you receive a prompt when you delete a flow from Flow Manager. For
information on Flow Manager and how to configure preferences for it, see the
User Guide.
- Enable the Deep Copy checkbox if you want to copy a
component's dependencies along with the component when you perform a copy
operation on it.
If Deep Copy is enabled and you copy a business object
definition from one library to another, then all of the child business objects
it contains are copied as well, for instance. If Deep Copy
is not enabled, however, and you copy a business object definition from one
library to another, then only the business object itself is copied.
- Type the name and path of a file in the Log File field, or
click Browse to select a file. When errors occur in System
Manager, the error information is written to the file specified. Type a
number in the Max Size field to specify the maximum size of the log
file in megabytes.
- Click Restore Defaults to set the preferences elements to their
default values.
- 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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