Integrating a value translator

You use a value translator to define how IRL is generated for your business-specific BOM types. To integrate and declare the value translator, you must repackage the Decision Center archive.

About this task

Value translators define how IRL is generated for your business-specific BOM types (see Creating a value translator).

Procedure

To integrate a value translator into Decision Center:

  1. Package your implementation of the interface IlrValueTranslator into a JAR.
  2. Create a preferences.properties file that maps the key you defined for the valueTranslator property in the BOM Editor to your interface implementation, and include that file in the JAR file that contains your implementation: 
    webui.translator.myKey = mypackage.MyValueTranslatorImplementation
  3. Repackage the Decision Center archive with the repackage-ear command. In the repackage-ear command, use the -DadditionalJars argument to specify the JAR file containing your custom class.
    Note:

    For information on how to repackage the Decision Center archive, see Repackaging the Decision Center archive.

  4. Deploy the Decision Center archive.

Results

The value translator is now available in Decision Center.