Creating a user-defined node project

When you create user-defined nodes, you must first create a user-defined node project to contain the nodes and their supporting files.

About this task

To create a new project for your user-defined node, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Click File > New > User-defined Node Project.
    The New User-defined Node Project wizard starts.
  2. Either select an existing category, or select Create a new category and specify the name of a new category for the nodes that you are creating.
    Your user-defined nodes are displayed in the palette in the Message Flow editor under the category you specify for the project.
  3. Specify a name for your project.
  4. Specify a name for your plug-in identifier. To be consistent with the supplied nodes, and to avoid conflict with the names of node projects that are supplied by other independent software vendors, use your Internet domain name for your organization as part of the name and plug-in identifier. For example, the name and plug-in identifier must be of the form com.xyz.nodegroup, where com.xyz is the company Internet domain name.

    You can save any number of nodes in a single project.

  5. Accept all default values and click Finish.

Results

A project folder that contains all the supporting files that are required for your user-defined node is shown in the Application Development view under Independent Resources.

What to do next

Create the user-defined node plug-ins, see Creating a user-defined node in the IBM Integration Toolkit.