Migrating BTT Version 4.3 Desktop to Version 7.0 Rich Client

About this task

The following screen capture shows the customer search view from BTT Version 4.3 Java sample:

screen capture of customer search view from BTT 4.3 Java sample

To do such an integration based on the activity framework, perform the following steps:

  1. Turn the target project to plug-in project. Right click the project, and on the pop-up menu, click PDE Tools > Convert Projects to Plug-in Projects. See the following screen capture:

    screen capture of how to invoke the PDE Tools

  2. Add the required plug-ins to this project. See the following screen capture:

    screen capture of adding required plug-ins

  3. Define activities and navigation items. Use com.ibm.btt.rcp.workingarea.activity.DSENavigationWaActivity, and customize the class of swing component to the activity parameter. This activity is included in bttcompat.jar file. Add this file to your plug-in runtime path to use it.
  4. Launch BTT Version 4.3 Swing based transaction panels as other transactions.