Setting up the CHA Editor

The CHA Editor provides a wizard to create the default editor configuration file and the three definition XML files used by the CHA component. Use the wizard to customize the CHA Editor for each project.

To set up the CHA Editor for a project, do the following:

  1. Create a simple project to contain the CHA Editor files. Select File > New > Project and then in the dialogue box that pops up, expand Simple, select Project.

    Create a simple project to contain the CHA Editor files.

    Click Next and provide a name to the Project name field:

    Provide a name to the Project

    Click Finish.
  2. Create the CHA Editor file. From the File menu, select File > New > Other.

    Select File-> New ->Other to create a CHA editor file.
  3. In the dialog box that pops up, select IBM Bank Transformation Toolkit and expand it.

    Select CHA Editor in the pop-up dialogue box.
  4. Select CHA Editor file.
  5. Click Next. This starts the CHA Editor Configuration Wizard.

    Start the CHA Configuration Wizard.
  6. Select the simple project. This will be the project file for the application you are creating.
  7. In the file name field, type the name of the editor's configuration file. The file must have the .chae extension.
  8. Click Finish.
  9. In the dialogue box that pops up, set the folder for the dse file set.

    Set the folder for the dse file set.

The wizard then creates the configuration file (dsectxt.xml, dsedata.xml, and dsetype.xml) in the project folder. It then launches the CHA Editor.