Broker Application Development perspective

The Broker Application Development perspective is the default perspective that is displayed when you start the Message Brokers Toolkit.

Typically, you carry out the following tasks in this perspective:

The following figure shows the Broker Application Development perspective of the Message Brokers Toolkit. The TextMessenger.msgflow file in the Resource Navigator view is open in the Message Flow editor.

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

The Broker Application Development perspective provides several views that allow you to navigate, browse, and update your application resources.

Navigator view

This view displays a hierarchy view of the following message flow resource files:
  • Message flow projects
  • Message flows

You can open any of these resources for editing using specialized editors, except project files.

Editor view

Editors are launched in the editor area when you double-click a resource in the Resource Navigator view.

The Message Flow editor is provided by default by Message Brokers Toolkit for working with the content of message flow files.

Outline view

The Outline view provides a summary of the content of the resource that you currently have open in the Editor view.

Tasks view

The Tasks view displays any messages (information and error) that are associated with the resource that you currently have open in the Editor view. For example, if you save a message flow that has an error (such as a mandatory property not set), you can check the content of the Tasks view to determine any corrections that you need to make. When you double-click a Tasks view entry, the appropriate editor opens the resource in error, and positions the cursor at the point of the error (where possible).

Broker Application Development perspective toolbar

The icons in the toolbar and their actions are shown in the table below.
Icon Label and action

Dequeue message icon
Get a message from a Queue

Enqueue message ucon
Put a message to a Queue

Create new message flow project icon
Create a New Message Flow Project

Create new broker schema icon
Create a New Broker Schema

Create new message flow icon
Create a New Message Flow