Tools

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.