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 resources associated with message flows. The Message Brokers Toolkit also communicates with a Configuration Manager (one or more), and you can use it to manage broker domains.
You can install the Message Brokers Toolkit on Windows® and Linux® on x86.
When you start the Message Brokers Toolkit, a single window is displayed. This window is the workbench, which contains one or more perspectives.
A perspective is a collection of views and editors that you use to 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 on Windows.
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, in 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.