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.
This section describes how to open and close 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, Integrated Test
Environment, and Collaboration Debugger 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:
This perspective allows you to work directly with the meta-data files that
represent project materials, such as integration component libraries. Figure 29 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 29. Resource perspective

- Important:
- The meta-data files exposed through the Resource perspective
define the WebSphere InterChange Server 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.
This perspective provides editors and views that assist with authoring Java
files. Although you perform most Java programming in the designer
tools, you occasionally have to write external components such as data
handlers, or write utility classes. In these cases, this Java
perspective can be very useful. shows the Java perspective.
Figure 30. Java perspective

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.
You can control the panes that are displayed in the WebSphere WorkBench and
WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition
perspectives.
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 Component
Management.
- Click OK.
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.
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 check boxes 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 check box to display the
ClearCase menu.
|
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.
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 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.
To set your System Manager preferences, do the following:
- Select Window > Preferences from the menu bar of the
workbench.
- Select System Manager Preferences and 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 check box for the component type in
the "Do not confirm object deletion" pane.
- Note:
- Enabling the Unresolved Flows check box 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 System Administration Guide.
- Enable the Deep Copy check box 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 example. 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.
For more information on dependencies, see Dependencies and references.
- 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.
Figure 31 shows the System Manager preferences interface.
Figure 31. System Manager preferences

- The "Broker Preferences" interface allows you to configure System
Manager to work with the supported WebSphere message brokers.
Do the following to set your broker preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and then select Broker
Preferences.
- Either type the full path to the WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker importer
utility in the Specify the Integrator broker importer path field or
click Browse to select the directory.
- Either type the full path to the WebSphere BI Message Broker importer
utility in the Specify the Message broker importer path field or
click Browse to select the directory.
- Either type the full path to the Eclipse workspace directory for WebSphere
BI Message Broker in the Specify the Message broker workspace
directory field or click Browse to select the
directory.
Figure 32 shows the "Broker Preferences" interface:
Figure 32. Broker preferences

- The "Compiler" preferences interface allows
you to specify the location of libraries required by maps or collaborations
that you develop so that the compiler can locate them.
Do the following to set your compiler preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and then select
Compiler.
- Click New.
- At the "Add Classpath" dialog, navigate to a library that you want
to add to the compiler classpath, select the library, and click
Open.
Figure 33 shows the "Compiler" preferences interface:
Figure 33. Compiler preferences

- The "Deployment Settings" interface allows you to set options that
are relevant when you deploy components to a server from System
Manager.
Do the following to set your deployment preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and then select
Deployment Settings.
- Enable the Overwrite Components in Server during Drag and Drop
deployment check box.
Figure 34 shows the "Deployment Settings" interface:
Figure 34. Deployment Settings interface

- The "System Monitor Settings" interface allows you to configure
the behavior of the monitoring features of InterChange Server Component
Management view.
Do the following to set your System Monitor preferences:
- Expand System Manager Preferences and then select System
Monitor Settings.
- Type the number of seconds in the Poll Interval field that you
want System Manager to wait in between checking the system state to display
information in the System View view.
Figure 35 shows the "System Monitor Settings" interface:
Figure 35. System Monitor Settings

For more information about the System View view, see the System Administration Guide.
- Click Apply to save your preferences and continue working in
the "Preferences" dialog, or click OK to save your
preferences and exit the dialog.
