System Manager

The System Manager interface is derived from the Eclipse platform--an open-source integrated development environment for the creation of tools. The Eclipse platform provides tools developers with a development kit and runtime that enables the developer to write plug-ins that allow the user to work with a particular type of resource.

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System Manager is installed as a plug-in that can be used in IBM-branded versions of the Eclipse platform.

You access System Manager as an Eclipse-based perspective. The System Manager perspective provides views and editors that help you generally with using your system and accessing the tools, as well as providing an interface for deploying the integration projects that you develop. These perspectives include support for the following tasks:

Tasks in System Manager are accessible through a menu and corresponding toolbar, as well as through the WebSphere Business Integration System Manager view. The WebSphere Business Integration System Manager view, displayed in the left-hand panel of System Manager, shows a folder-style list of libraries of modular integration components (such as business object definitions, database connection pools, and collaboration templates and objects). You can perform development and configuration tasks by right-clicking on the icon for a component in a library.

From System Manager, you can access the GUI tools for creating collaboration templates, business object definitions, maps, and relationships. Note that some development tools can also be accessed and run independently of System Manager.

See "Development tools" for a list of some of the available development tools.

Component configuration

You can use System Manager to manipulate the modular IBM WebSphere InterChange Server components--referred to as integration components--that are used to implement the exchange of business data in an IBM WebSphere InterChange Server environment. These components include collaborations, connectors, business objects, maps, relationships, and database connection pools. From System Manager, you can perform component-related configuration tasks such as:

System Manager and InterChange Server modes

When you are developing integration components, you can use server mode selections in System Manager to control the manner and extent to which the component definitions and configurations you have created are loaded into the repository. Server mode selections are available for the design, testing, and production stages of development. For information about using server modes, see the Implementation Guide for WebSphere InterChange Server.

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