Downloading from a pattern community website by using a helper
application
To use a user-defined pattern in
your IBM® Integration Bus projects, download
and install the pattern archive for the
user-defined pattern from a pattern community website by using a helper
application.
Before you start:Before you can complete this task,
you must be on the pattern community website that contains the pattern archive that you want to download.
You can install a pattern archive directly
from a pattern community website by using a helper application.
- Navigate to the pattern archive that
you want to download.
- Click the link for the required pattern archive. A new window
opens. The content of the window depends on your browser, but the
typical options are to either open the file or save the file.
- Install the pattern archive:
- On Windows:
Select
the option to open the pattern archive.
The Install Pattern Archive window opens and
shows a progress monitor.
If you have more
than one IBM Integration Toolkit installed on
your workstation, the helper application is for the IBM Integration Toolkit that you most recently installed.
If you want to control which IBM Integration Toolkit is
extended with your pattern, download the file to disk, follow the
instructions in Downloading from a shared file system, then start the IBM Integration Toolkit that you want to extend.
- On Linux:
The exact steps you must complete to install the pattern archive depend on your Linux distribution and the file
explorer and browser you use. Use the following steps as a guide.
- Save the pattern archive to your
local file system. Select the option in your browser window to save
the pattern archive to your local file
system. Choose a location for the file and start the download.
- After the download completes, open the pattern archive with the MBPatternInstaller helper
application. Open a file explorer and navigate to the pattern archive. Use the Open
with menu option on the pattern archive and select MBPatternInstaller.bin.
The MBPatternInstaller application is located in the IBM Integration Toolkit installation directory, for
example, /opt/IBM/IntegrationToolkit90.
The Install Pattern Archive window opens and
shows a progress monitor.
- Close and relaunch the IBM Integration Toolkit.
The new user-defined pattern is displayed in the Patterns Explorer view.
Next:You can now use the user-defined pattern in
your projects. See Using patterns.