BOX Manager

A Buildable Object eXchange (BOX) is a file package consisting of a collection of related system configuration files. Through the IDE, a BOX is transferred from one system root to another. Every BOX has a manifest file to record its content, the time of creation, the version, and descriptive notes.

BOX also provides the ability to share configuration resources between system sites on several hosts.

A BOX can include these objects:

  • Thread/destination and its process definition
  • Database schemas
  • Tcl procs
  • Java UPoCs
  • PDLs
  • Variants of message format
  • EO configurations
  • Xlate and XSLT
  • Lookup tables

A BOX can also include these on the physical file level:

  • NetConfig and thread/process notes files
  • Database schema files and corresponding database configuration
  • Tcl script files
  • Java UPoC class files
  • PDL files
  • Format files: FRL, VRL, HRL, LDL, XML, HL7, X12, and other HMD variant files
  • EO configuration files
  • Translation configuration files, XSLT files, Lookup table files

An audit trail is created when creating, importing, exporting, deploying, and creating a site for a BOX. This trail is viewed from the Audit Log Viewer.

If your Java classes are packaged to a jar file, then you can add this file to the BOX using the GUI. Its original folder structure is remembered in the BOX manifest.xml file during BOX creation.