Creating an application with the Graphical Builder

The Graphical Builder provides tools to assist you throughout the application development cycle. When developing with the Graphical Builder, you develop one transaction at a time and then package all the transactions you developed for the application into an EAR file for deployment. To create an application with the Graphical Builder, follow these steps:
  1. Analyze the requirements and identify the entities that your application will uses. The entities include data elements, CHA contexts, formatters, and so on.
  2. Create Branch Transformation Toolkit projects.
  3. Create a presentation node for web clients
  4. Create Single Action EJB nodes or business process nodes for presentation nodes.
  5. Add CHA context nodes to the presentation nodes, Single Action EJB nodes, and business process nodes.
  6. Add formatters to the Single Action EJB nodes and business process nodes.
  7. Create the formatters with the Format Editor or create new formatter from the Graphical Builder.
  8. Define invokers for presentation nodes to connect to Single Action EJBs or business processes.
  9. Create actions in Struts with the Web Diagram Editor and Struts Tools BTT Extension.
  10. Create associated WSDL or invoker for actions in Struts.
  11. Code the reusable entities for your application, such visual beans, desktop components,EJB, and business process Java(TM) snippets.
  12. Repeat the step 2 to 11 until you have created all the transactions for your application.
  13. Package projects into an EAR file.