DataBlade Developers Kit User's Guide Creating DataBlade Objects Using BladeSmith

You use BladeSmith to create DataBlade modules. BladeSmith provides a visual presentation of the objects in a DataBlade module and allows you to add objects and modify properties of objects. After DataBlade module objects are defined in a BladeSmith project, use BladeSmith to generate source code files, SQL scripts, functional tests, and installation packaging files.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Prerequisite Tasks, next
• BladeSmith Task Overview
• BladeSmith Windows
• Creating a New Project
• Importing Interfaces from Another DataBlade Module
• Creating DataBlade Module Objects
• Adding Functional Test Data
• Adding SQL Files
• Adding Client Files
• Generating Files

BladeSmith on-line help contains additional topics and reference information for BladeSmith. Use the on-line help for detailed descriptions of the BladeSmith user interface.

See Appendix A, Source Files Generated for DataBlade Modules, for a complete list of generated files.

Appendix B, Completing BladeSmith-Generated Code, provides reference tables that list the types of objects BladeSmith generates and indicate whether BladeSmith generates complete code or template code you must complete.