Creating the IsDisplayArticle activity

Within the WebSphere® Integration Developer family of tools, an activity is unit of work that performs a specific programmatic task in order to achieve a larger programming goal. Each of the tools and component within the product already provide predefined activities that have been designed to perform specific functions, but the need may arise where custom behavior is needed.

You can create your own customized activities by using the visual snippet editor to graphically compose your own snippets of Java™ code.

Follow the topics that are listed here in sequence to learn how to build an activity with the visual snippet editor.

  1. From the menu, select File > New > Other.The New window opens.
  2. In the navigation tree, click Business Integration > Custom Visual Snippet.
    Picture of the New window
    The Select a wizard field is set to Create a new Custom Visual Snippet. .
  3. Click Next.
  4. From the Module list, click NewsModule.
  5. In the Name field, type IsDisplayArticle.
  6. From the Category list, click logic.
    Picture of the New window
    The Select a wizard field is set to Create a new custom visual snippet. .The Namespace field is set to http://NewsModule/logic.The Folder field is set to logic.
  7. Click Finish. The editor opens for IsDisplayArticle.

Feedback
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2005. All Rights Reserved.