IBM Cast Iron Studio
IBM® Cast Iron® Studio is a development tool that is used to design, test, and publish integration projects to an IBM Cast Iron Integration Appliance. Studio provides numerous entities that you can drag into a workspace and configure as part of one, or more, business-process orchestrations that comprise an integration project.
Before you start, read Studio basics to familiarize yourself with the Studio environment and the terminology used, then refer to the topics in the help to find out how to complete specific tasks.
For detailed information about deploying your projects and working with them on the Integration Appliance, see the Web Management console help.
For a conceptual overview of Studio, including a step-by-step sample of how to create, test, and publish a project, see the Introduction to getting started section.
IBM Cast Iron Studio introduction pane
When you first launch Studio, the IBM Cast Iron Studio introduction pane is displayed. If Studio was closed while editing an existing project, Studio automatically loads the last edited project. To edit the loaded project, click an entity in the Project tab.
The following options are available from the IBM Cast Iron Studio introduction pane:
- Create Project - Launches the New Studio Project dialog box. Use the New Studio Project dialog box to create a new empty project with a default empty orchestration.
- Open Project - Launches the Open dialog box. Use the Open dialog box to browse for and open an existing project file. A Studio project file ends in the .sp3 extension.
- Recent Project - To view a project that was recently opened, click directly on project name under the Recent Projects folder.
- View Help - Launches the Studio help.
- Find Solutions - Launches the Template Integration Projects (TIPs) Searching for Template Integration Projects (TIPs) dialog box, which allows you to search for TIPs from the Cast Iron solutions repository.
