Message Flow Editor

Use this editor to construct a proxy service message flow. To insert a node or an action into a message flow, drag the item from the Message Flow Design Palette to the editor. When you drag an item to the editor, one or more targets appear () to indicate that you can drop the dragged item in that position on the palette. When you drag the item onto a target, the target is highlighted () to show that you can drop the item there.

You can also add nodes and actions to message flows by right-clicking an object in the Message Flow Editor and choosing a node or action from the Insert, Insert Into, or Insert After submenus. You can also add an error handler by selecting the Add Error Handler command. These submenus and commands are context sensitive. That is, they appear only when it is legal to add the item into the selected context in the message flow.

When you select a node or action in the editor, a configuration page for that item is displayed in the Properties view. You can add or modify configuration properties in those pages. The message flow node and action properties configuration pages are: