TIBCO Business Studio™ for BusinessWorks™ Essentials

TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks Essentials is an Eclipse-based integration development environment that is used to design and test TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks applications.

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If you are familiar with the TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks Essentials UI, skip to the section Developing a Basic Process.
TIBCO Cloud™ Integration supports Java 11 on the Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

Starting TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks

To start TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks on Windows, select Start > All Programs > TIBCO_HOME > TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks 1.0 > Studio for Designers. On Linux or Mac OS, select the TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks executable located at <TIBCO_HOME>/studio/4.0/eclipse/.

On the Workspace Launcher dialog, accept the default workspace or browse to create a new workspace, and then click OK. TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks starts and the default development environment, called a workbench, displays. A welcome screen is displayed in the window when a workspace is opened for the first time.

Note: On Mac OS, TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks displays the Subversion Native Library Not Available dialog if the SVN interface is set to JavaHL (default) and the JavaHL libraries are not available. To ensure that the dialog is not displayed each time you start TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks, perform one of the following:

Install the JavaHL libraries. For more information, see http://subclipse.tigris.org/wiki/JavaHL.
Update the SVN interface to use SVNKit instead of JavaHL. Select Window > Preferences and in the Preferences dialog, select Team > SVN. For the SVN interface Client field, select SVNKit (Pure Java) interface from the drop-down list.

TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks Development Environment

TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks is an Eclipse-based integration development environment that is used to design, develop, and test ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks applications. The studio provides a workbench in which you can create, manage, and navigate resources in your workspace. A workspace is the central location on your computer where all data files are stored.

The following table introduces the workbench UI elements highlighted in the image:

UI Element	Description
Menu	Contains menu items such as File, Edit, Navigate, Search, Project, Run, Window, and Help.
Toolbar	Contains buttons for frequently used commands such as: New Save Enable/Disable Business Studio Capabilities Create a new BusinessWorks Application Module Debug Run
Perspectives	Contains an initial set and layout of views that are required to perform a certain task. TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks launches the Design perspective by default. Use the Design perspective when designing a process and the Debug perspective when testing and debugging a process. To change the perspective, select Window > Open Perspective > perspective_name from the main menu. Or, you can click the icon at the top right-hand side of the workbench and select the perspective to open.
Views	Lists the resources and helps you navigate within the workbench. For example, the Project Explorer view displays the ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks applications, modules, and other resources in your workspace, and the Properties view displays the properties for the selected resource. To open a view, select Window > Show View > view_nameview_name from the main menu.
Editors	Provides a canvas to configure, edit, or browse a resource. Double-click a resource in a view to open the appropriate editor for the selected resource. For example, double-click on a process `(MortgageAppConsumer.bwp)` in the Project Explorer view to open the process in the editor.
Palette	Contains a set of widgets and a palette library. A palette groups activities that perform similar tasks, and provides quick access to activities when configuring a process.

Explorers

The TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks consists of the following tabs in the left pane:

Project Explorer
API Explorer
File Explorer
Cloud Applications
Outline tab
Module tab

Designing a Process

Design a process in TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks to implement the business logic. For more information, see Developing a Basic Process.

Testing and Debugging an Application

TIBCO Business Studio for BusinessWorks you can test and debug your application from the design-time.

To run the selected application, select Run > Run from the main menu, or click the toolbar.

To execute and debug the application, select Run > Debug from the main menu, or click the toolbar.

By default, the project displayed in the Process Editor launches. You can run or debug an application using a specific configuration. Create one or more configurations for your application by selecting Run > Run Configurations from the main menu and specifying the following:

Bundles to be executed.
Arguments such as the target operating system, target architecture, engine properties, and so on.
Settings that define the Java Runtime Environment including the Java executable, runtime JRE, configuration area, and so on.
Tracing criteria for the OSGi JAR file, if needed.
Common options such as saving the results either as local files or as shared files, displaying them in the menus (Debug and/or Run), and defining encoding for the result files.

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