The Branch Transformation Toolkit provides a number of tools that support the development of applications. All the tools are plug-ins of WebSphere(R) Studio Application Developer or WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition. Note that some functions of the Graphical Builder are only available when you are using the Integration Edition of WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
The Graphical Builder provides a set of tools to define entities required by applications, and distribute the runtime files. 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.
The CHA Editor and Formatter Editor provide user-friendly interfaces for creating or maintaining the definitions needed by the applications in the application logic layer.
The Business Process BTT Wizard provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to help you extend your business processes for taking advantage of toolkit specific entities. Note that this tool is only available when you are using the Integration Edition of WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
The Struts Tools BTT Extension provides a GUI to help you extend your Struts configuration files for taking advantage of toolkit specific entities.
Apart from all the development tools listed above, the toolkit also provides a toolkit migration tool to help you migrate your toolkit applications developed with version 4.3 of the toolkit to the new version 5.1 architecture.