This section describes the updates to the tools provided by the toolkit.
- Graphical Builder
- The Graphical Builder is the tool used during toolkit development for
creating external definitions and runtime components, maintaining them, and
so on. It is a plug-in of WebSphere(R) Studio Application Developer or WebSphere Studio
Application Developer Integration Edition. The Graphical Builder provides
a development environment throughout the development cycle of toolkit applications.
It also acts as a portal from where you can start other tools that the toolkit
provides.
- CHA Editor
- The CHA Editor is the tool used during toolkit development for creating
and maintaining the external definition files of CHA (Common Hierarchical
Areas) contexts and their data elements and types. It provides a visual
representation of the structure and relieves you of the need to deal with
XML tags. The CHA Editor is a WebSphere Studio Application Developer
plug-in that you can run from the Application Developer.
- Format Editor
- The Format Editor is the tool used during toolkit development for creating
and maintaining the external definition files of formatters and their CHA
contexts and data elements. It provides a visual representation of the
structure and relieves you of the need to deal with XML tags. The Format Editor
is a WebSphere Studio
Application Developer plug-in that you can run from the Application Developer.
- Business Process BTT Wizard
- The Business Process BTT Wizard is the tool used to customize your business
processes for taking advantage of toolkit specific entities such as CHA contexts.
It provides a graphical user interface that saves you from editing the BPEL
files directly.
- Struts Tools BTT Extensions
- The Struts Tools BTT Extensions provides a GUI to help you extend your
Struts configuration files for taking advantage of toolkit specific entities
such as CHA. It provides a graphical user interface that saves you from editing
the Struts configuration files in XML format directly. The Struts Tools BTT
Extensions is an integral part of toolkit development and is documented separately.
- Migration tools
- The migration tools provides wizards to help you migrate
the toolkit configuration files, context definitions, formatter definitions,
server operations, flow processors, and screen flows of your version 4.3 application
to the corresponding components of your version 5.1 application. The migration
tools can also generate Graphical Builder files which enables you to further
modify your migrated application with the Graphical Builder.