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Business integration capabilities

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IBM® Integration Designer provides a filtering function known as capabilities. With capabilities, you can choose to hide tools not used during business integration application development. At any time, you can choose to show those tools again.

IBM Integration Designer supports a range of servers and runtime deployment environments. Tools are grouped into predefined categories called capabilities according to the target runtime that they support. You use capabilities to filter your development environment, so that you see only the tools that you need. In order to access a tool, its capability must be enabled.

When you install Integration Designer, you are asked to select a runtime environment. The capability that corresponds to your selection is enabled. The first time you start IBM Integration Designer, the tools that are part of that capability are available, and the other tools are hidden. The Getting Started page is also customized according to the runtime (and capability) that you selected during installation. You can enable or disable capabilities at any time according to your needs.

IBM Integration Designer provides these capabilities:
IBM Workflow Server
Includes development tools for mediation modules. Additionally, provides tools, functions, and related documentation to create and test applications that can be deployed to this server.

Use this capability if you want to work with business processes created in IBM Process Designer and the IBM Workflow Center repository. Also use this capability if you want to work with applications that targeted IBM Workflow Server in previous releases.

The IBM Workflow Server development capability includes:
  • Process applications and toolkits
  • Modules, mediation modules and libraries
  • Business objects
  • Interfaces and interface maps
  • Data maps: Business object maps, Relationships and XML maps.
  • Customized visual snippets
  • BPEL processes
  • Mediation flows
  • Human tasks
  • State machines
  • Business rules
  • Business vocabularies
  • Business Calendar
  • Java™ Components
  • Selectors
  • Enterprise Access artifacts and adapters
To see the capabilities that are available, follow these steps:
  1. From the Help menu, select Getting Started > IBM Integration Designer.
  2. In the Getting Started page that opens, the section What environment do you want to use? shows the current capability that is enabled.