IBM Integration Toolkit

When you start the IBM Integration Toolkit, a single window is displayed. This window is the IBM Integration Toolkit, which contains one or more perspectives.

A perspective is a collection of views and editors that you use to complete a specific task, or work with specific types of resource. The two significant perspectives in the IBM Integration Toolkit are the Integration Development perspective for application development, and the Debug perspective for debugging message flows. The first time that you start the IBM Integration Toolkit, the Integration Development perspective is displayed.

An additional stand-alone component, the IBM Integration Explorer, is supplied for advanced administrative users, and enables additional administration tasks that you cannot perform in the IBM Integration Toolkit.

The Help view provides context-sensitive help throughout the IBM Integration Toolkit. You can display the Help view for most aspects of the user interface (for example, on the Application Development view, the Message Flow editor, or a properties page) by bringing focus to the object and pressing F1 (on Windows) or SHIFT+F1 (on Linux). The Related Topics page shows description and help topics that are related to the selected object. The About section shows context help that is specific to your current context, and the Dynamic Help section shows some search results that might be related.

Use the other pages in the Help view to view and search the contents of the information center. The All Topics page shows the table of contents of all the books in the information center. The Index provides an index of keywords of all the books in the information center. You can enter a keyword in the text field on the Index page to highlight the best match in the list of keywords. You can use the Search page to locate topics, samples, and remote documents using keywords in a search query. You can bookmark topics and other documents of interest, and view them in the Bookmarks page.