Starting and customizing Spoon

Spoon is PDI's desktop design tool. With Spoon, you design, preview, and test all your work, that is, transformations and jobs. When you see PDI screenshots, what you are really seeing are Spoon screenshots. The other PDI components, which you will learn about in the following chapters, are executed from Terminal windows.

Here is how you launch the tool:

  1. Start Spoon. If your system is Windows, run Spoon.bat from within the PDI install directory. In other platforms, such as Unix, Linux, and so on, open a Terminal window and type spoon.sh.
  2. The main window shows up. The Welcome! window appears with some useful links for you to see:
Welcome page
If Spoon doesn't start as expected, launch SpoonDebug.bat (or

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