A perspective is a group of views and editors that shows various aspects of the resources in the IBM® Integration Toolkit.
You can switch perspectives, depending on the task at hand, and customize the layout of views and editors. Switch between perspectives by clicking
, then clicking the perspective to which you want to switch.The IBM Integration Toolkit offers the following perspectives:
The Integration Development perspective is the default perspective that is displayed the first time that you start the IBM Integration Toolkit.
Application developers work in this perspective to develop and modify applications, libraries, message model schema files, message flows, and other associated resources. You can also import relational database schemas for ESQL content assist and validation, and interact with databases by using the Data Project Explorer view and Data Source Explorer view.
The preceding figure shows the Integration Development perspective with a message flow open in the Message Flow editor.
You can use the Integration Nodes view in the Integration Development perspective to create new brokers and deploy resources to connected brokers. Some of the administrative tasks that are available through the IBM Integration Explorer, which is supplied as a separate component that you can install on computers on which you intend to perform only administrative tasks, are also supported by the Integration Nodes view.
The Debug perspective is where application developers test and debug message flows.
The Plug-in Development perspective is where application developers develop plug-ins for user-defined extensions.
The Data Analysis is where application developers develop models for analyzing complex XML data.