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This section describes how to configure and use iWay Integration Tools Suite (iIT).
iIT can notify you when a new version becomes available. To enable this feature, open the same preferences dialog shown in Setting the iWay Home Preferences, and select Install/Update and then Automatic Updates. Click the Automatically find new updates and notify me checkbox.
You can use the iWay Explorer, shown in the image below, to browse the metadata of an iSM server. It is recommended that you create a connection before beginning works so you can access the resources found in the registry of your server.
To add an iWay Service Manager connection to your iWay Explorer:
Note: This is just a nickname for display, not the server connection information.
You can verify if the Connection String, Soap, and Console ports are valid.
An integration project is used to hold all the resources you create for your iSM application.
To create a new integration project:
You will also see other folders that were created to hold different types of resources. These folders are just for convenience and it is optional to put resources in them.
For testing purposes, iWay Service Manager (iSM) can be run within iIT.
Note: iIT automatically detects your iSM installation and sets the iWay Home directory when iSM is run inside iIT.
You can use the Registry component in iWay Explorer to browse resources available in the registry of an iSM server.
Some resources, for example, Transforms, Process Flows, Adapter, Registry Sets, and Schemas can be exported to an Integration Project.
To export a resource:
The Export Resource dialog box opens.
If you have not created a project, click the Browse button and then the Create Project button.
All dependencies of the resource will be exported with the parent by default. For example, if you have a process flow containing a transform, the transform will be exported to the default containing folder during the process flow export process.
After the process is complete, the selected resource can be found in the Integration Explorer under the target folder.
Make sure you have created an Integration Project to contain your new resource. The following section describes how to create a new resource.
To create a new resource:
The list that appears is a quick list of iIT wizards. however, there are many more available and can be accessed by selecting other.
After you select a project, the Target Server Version will be changed to the preference you set for the project. This can be changed here if necessary. In the case of a process flow, changing the target server version will cause the process flow to be compiled using the compiler from the selected version.
The following section describes how to publish a Resource.
To publish a resource to an iSM registry:
The Publish Resource Wizard dialog box opens, as shown in the following image.
The drop-down list provides all of the servers you have defined in iWay Explorer.
The following section describes how to test-run a resource.
To Test-run a resource:
The Run As dialog box appears as shown in the following image.
The Edit Configuration dialog box opens.
The Edit Configuration dialog is used to set options for the test run. A configuration is created and saved for each resource that you test run. These configurations can be viewed, modified, and cloned in the Run Configurations dialog accessed by clicking the arrow next to the Run As toolbar icon and selecting Run Configurations. After creating a run configuration for a resource, Eclipse will attempt to find and execute that configuration the next time you select the resource and click the Run As icon.
If you have servers configured in your iWay Explorer, they will show up in the drop-down list.
You can choose to execute a test run against the Registry or against a Configuration. If you select Existing Configuration, the drop-down list will be populated with configurations available on the server you specified in the server URL.
If your process flow has a dependency, you will be asked if you wish to publish this dependency to the Registry. All dependencies must be available in order for the process flow to run successfully.
The test results for a resource reside under the resource in a folder called Test Results. These results are maintained between runs so you can compare them.
The following image shows a transform and process flow with test results.
If you are notified of a test run failure, debugging information can be found in the results folder.
The Transform and Process Flow objects function differently for iWay Designer in iIT compared to the previous, standalone version of iWay designer. In the previous version, you could drag a Transform object onto a process flow and pick the transform to use from a drop-down list. This behavior has changed in iIT. You can now get additional resources to use on your process flow from the Registry Explorer.
To obtain additional resources to use on your process flow from the Registry Explorer:
The Export dialog box opens as shown below.
The transform will now reside in the transforms folder in your project and a corresponding transform object will exist on the process flow.
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