Dragging a resource from the Application Development view

Drag a node or a related resource into the Message Flow editor.

Before you begin

Complete the following tasks:

Create or open a message flow, as described in Creating a message flow Creating a message flow and Opening an existing message flow or subflow.
Read concept information in Message flow nodes.

About this task

To create a node, drag a resource from the Application Development view to an empty canvas. To modify an existing node, drag a resource onto that node. The following resources are supported:

An Adapter file
An IBM® Integration Bus SCA definition file
A database service
An ESQL file
A Java™ file
An MQ service
A subflow
A WSDL file
An XSL file

Procedure

Open the message flow with which you want to work.

Drag one of the supported resources from the Application Development view onto the canvas.

If you drop the resource on an empty canvas, a node is created and configured automatically.

The following table shows the results when you drag a resource from the Application Development view onto an empty canvas:

Resource	Node created	Property set
Adapter file	A PeopleSoftInput node, SAPInput node, or SiebelInput node is created.	Adapter component
CORBA IDL file	A CORBARequest node is created.	IDL file
ESQL file	A Compute node is created.	ESQL Module
Java file	A JavaCompute node is created.	Java Class
WSDL file	A SOAPInput node, SOAPRequest node, or SOAPAsyncRequest node is created.	WSDL file name
XSL file	An XSLTransform node is created.	Stylesheet

If you drop the resource onto an existing node, the relevant node property is updated with the name of the resource file. For example, if you drop a Java file onto a JavaCompute node, the Java Class property is set to the class name of the Java file that you are dropping. If you drop an ESQL file over any node that uses ESQL, such as a Database node, the ESQL Module property is set. Further examples include dropping an MQ Service onto an MQ node to configure it, or dropping a database service onto a Compute node to configure it.