Developing a HATS project

There are different paths you can take when building a HATS application. You might want to build an application that allows an end-user to navigate the host screens in an emulator-like fashion, or you might want to build an application that uses Integration Objects to collect data from the host and present that data on a Web page. You can even combine host screen navigation in the GUI with host data collection using Integration Objects in one Web application.

You can see step-by-step examples of HATS screen navigation and HATS Integration Objects in the HATS Tutorials section of the HATS Knowledge Center located at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/hats/9.7.0.

The procedures in this section will guide you through the process of developing an example HATS project. The procedures include information about both HATS Web and rich client projects. As you follow the procedures, you will perform these steps:
  1. Create a HATS project, with default values, using a wizard in the HATS Toolkit.
  2. Test the project using the local test environment.
  3. Make changes to the project. This process is known as customization. Common customization tasks are described in Customizing your HATS project.
  4. Test the project again, and do more customization.
  5. Export the project to an application and transfer it to a production environment. These steps are described in Preparing your HATS project for use as an application.