Starting HATS Toolkit and perspective

The HATS Toolkit can be started two ways.
  • Start Rational® SDP from the Windows® start menu and then open the HATS perspective.
  • Start HATS Toolkit from the Windows® start menu to start Rational® SDP and automatically open the HATS perspective.
    Note:
    1. The HATS Toolkit start menu item is located in the IBM® HATS V9.6 group under the Rational® SDP profile in which you have installed HATS.
    2. When you use the HATS Toolkit start menu item, the HATS Toolkit starts in the language installed for Rational® SDP, assuming the HATS Toolkit is translated in the same language. When installed on an Arabic translation of Rational® SDP, two HATS Toolkit start menu items are provided, HATS Toolkit (Arabic), which starts the Arabic translation of HATS Toolkit, and HATS Toolkit (English), which starts the English translation of HATS Toolkit. For more information see the chapter, Language support.
The HATS perspective includes two main areas:
  • The HATS Projects view, which lists your HATS projects in an expandable tree view.
    A text filter entry field is provided to aid you in searching for HATS artifacts. An asterisk (*) can be used as a wild card to represent parts of the resource name. For example, using a filter of *.css or *css returns the same matches.
    Note:
    1. A wildcard is appended to the end of the text that you enter into the filter field. For example, if you enter *.j in the filter field, an asterisk is appended to the *.j, resulting in a filter of *.j*. This filter would show you all .jsp and .jpg files.
    2. Filtering is not case-sensitive.
    3. To clear the text in the filter field, click the x beside the filter entry field.
  • The editor window, which initially contains the HATS Welcome page. You will also use editors in this window to work with HATS resources. Below and to the right of the editor are views that aid in editing resources in the editor.

The Navigator view, which is a default view in Rational® SDP, provides a hierarchical view of the resources in the workbench including project .ear files and other local artifacts. It also displays closed (or archived) HATS projects that do not display in the HATS Projects view. These closed projects can be re-opened by right-mouse clicking and selecting Open Project.

The first time you start the HATS Toolkit, you will see a HATS tip, welcoming you to HATS and giving pointers about getting started. You can use the check boxes on the tip windows to control which tips you see.

If you start Rational® SDP and the HATS perspective does not appear, you can open the HATS perspective by clicking Window > Open Perspective > Other and selecting Host Access Transformation Services from the list of available perspectives. If you close or rearrange some of the windows in the HATS perspective, your arrangement is saved when you exit. When you return to HATS Toolkit, it will be restored to your last successfully saved exit configuration. To restore the original HATS windows, click Window > Reset Perspective.