Client environment

The Message Brokers Toolkit is an integrated development environment and graphical user interface based on the Eclipse platform.

Application developers work in separate instances of the Message Brokers Toolkit to develop message sets and message flows. The Message Brokers Toolkit also communicates with one or more Configuration Managers, and is used to manage broker domains.

The Message Brokers Toolkit can be installed on Windows and Linux (x86 platform).

The workbench

When you start the Message Brokers Toolkit, a single window is displayed. This is the workbench, which contains one or more perspectives.

A perspective is a collection of views and editors that help you complete a specific task, or work with specific types of resource. The first time that you start the Message Brokers Toolkit, the Broker Application Development perspective is displayed. While you work in the workbench, you will switch perspectives frequently.

The following figure shows the Broker Application Development perspective with a message flow open in the Message Flow editor.

A screen capture of the Broker Application Development perspective in the Message Brokers Toolkit.

Accessing context-sensitive help (infopops)

Infopops are provided throughout the Message Brokers Toolkit. An infopop is a small pop-up window that displays context-sensitive help and provides links to more information in the information center. You can launch an infopop for most aspects of the user interface (for example, on the Resource Navigator, 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 following figure shows the infopop that is displayed when you press F1 on the MQInput node in the node palette of the Message Flow editor.

A screen capture of the infopop on the MQInput node in the palette of the Message Flow editor.