Business integration capabilities and roles

Through Eclipse, WebSphere® Integration Developer provides a filtering function known as capabilities. With capabilities, you can choose to hide tools not used during business integration application development; at any time, you can choose to show those tools again.

Tool capabilities

In the Preferences settings, the product's functions and tools are categorized into capabilities. You can choose to enable and disable categories of capabilities or the subset functions of any category.

To see the capabilities that are available, follow these steps:
  1. From the Window menu, select Preferences.
  2. In the list in the left frame of the Preferences window, click the plus sign to see the Workbench list, and select Capabilities.

Preferences user interface

There is one category related to the business integration tools:
  • Integration Developer

    This category has three functions:

    • Core Integration Development

      Provides tools, functions, and related documentation to create:

      • Libraries
      • Business objects
      • Interfaces
    • Mediation Development

      Includes core integration development tools and also provides tools, functions, and related documentation to create and test:

      • Mediation modules and assemblies
      • Mediation flows
      • Enterprise Access artifacts
    • Process Development

      Includes core integration and mediation development tools and also provides tools, functions, and related documentation to create and test:

      • Modules and module assemblies
      • Business object maps
      • Interface maps
      • Relationships
      • Customized visual snippets
      • Processes
      • State machines
      • Business rules
      • Selectors
      • Human tasks

Help Contents capability

Documentation in the information center is organized into two books:
  • WebSphere Integration Developer, which contains the documentation for all of the business integration tools
  • Rational® Software Development Platform, which contains the documentation for all of the Rational Java™ and Web development tools
Here is the Help window showing both books:

The Help window

Use the Help Contents capability to show or hide either book. By default, only the WebSphere Integration Developer book is enabled in the information center. Within the WebSphere Integration Developer book, some contents may be hidden if parts of the Integration Developer functions are disabled. For example, documentation for the tools related to Process Development is hidden when its function is disabled.

By default, all of the Integration Developer capabilities and their related WebSphere Integration Developer documentation are enabled. See the related tasks for more information on how to enable capabilities and show all documentation in the information center.

Related concepts
Modules and libraries
Modules and libraries dependencies
Business integration cheat sheets
Best practices: Sharing projects
Related tasks
Creating a module for business services
Creating a mediation module
Changing default namespaces
Enabling tools capabilities
Adding dependencies to modules and libraries
Creating the library
Showing all documentation in the information center
Related reference
Best practices: Modules and packaging for business services
Best practices: Mediation modules and packaging
Business Integration perspective and views
Documentation of resources

Related information

Tutorial: Work with modules and libraries

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