The Integration Development perspective is the default perspective that is displayed when you start the IBM® Integration Toolkit.
You can complete the following tasks in this perspective:
The Integration Development perspective provides several views to navigate, browse, and update your resources.
The IBM Integration Toolkit shows the Message Flow editor by default for working with the content of message flow files.
The IBM Integration Toolkit provides specialized editors by default for working with the content of message flow and message set files. See Editors for more information.
Click the Overview
Mode icon to switch to the Overview
view, which provides a useful summary for large, complex message flows
because it shows a small-scale version of the flow. Click the Overview
Mode icon again to return to the Outline view.
Use the Integration Nodes view to create and work with integration nodes in the IBM Integration Toolkit. Integration nodes that are created on the local system are automatically displayed in the Integration Nodes view. Remote integration nodes can be added to the Integration Nodes view. When you open or switch to the Integration Nodes view, the IBM Integration Toolkit attempts to connect to integration nodes on the local system and to any remote integration nodes that have been defined.; For more information, see Configuring integration nodes and Managing integration nodes.
The Properties view displays the properties for the node that is selected in the Editor view. The Properties are grouped and displayed on tabs, which are listed on the left of the Properties view.
The Deployment Log view shows the result of deploying integration nodes that are in the IBM Integration Toolkit.
The Deployment Log view is displayed at the bottom of the Integration Development perspective in the IBM Integration Toolkit. If the Deployment Log view is not displayed, you can show it by clicking .
Right-clicking in the Deployment Log view displays a menu with the following item:
Clears all log entries from the Deployment Log view, but does not delete the log entries from the administration log.
Messages are automatically cleared after 72 hours.