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Find details on the SPL language, toolkits, APIs, commands, and more.
Toolkits
A toolkit is a set of SPL artifacts, which are organized into a package. Toolkits make SPL or native functions and primitive or composite operators reusable across different applications.
Toolkits
Toolkit com.teracloud.streams.teda 4.0.1
Developing TEDA applications
Customizing applications

Welcome
Learn about the core capabilities of Teracloud® Streams, its architecture, and key concepts.
Installing
Use this information to install, upgrade, and uninstall the Teracloud® Streams product.
Configuring
Create a basic or an enterprise domain which is a single point for configuring and managing common resources, security, and instances.
Administering
Administer the product by using the Teracloud® Streams graphical user interface, APIs, or the streamtool command-line interface.
Developing
Learn about different Teracloud Streams tools and features to write, compile, run, and test streams applications.
Troubleshooting
Resolve problems with Teracloud® Streams using the troubleshooting tools provided with the product as well as the resources offered by Teracloud Support.
Reference
Find details on the SPL language, toolkits, APIs, commands, and more.
- APIs
  Application programming interfaces (APIs) provide functions that simplify applications development.
- Job configuration overlays
  You can specify or change configuration parameters when you use the submitjob or updateoperators operations. The settings control submission constraints, host constraints and locations, and operator status. Parameters are captured and updated in the configuration JSON file. When you change the values in the job configuration overlay file, the changes override any previously set values.
- Commands
  Teracloud® Streams provides a number of commands you use to perform tasks.
- Metrics
  Teracloud® Streams provides metrics to help evaluate the health of Teracloud Streams services, to aid in diagnosing performance issues, and to analyze throughput of requests. You can use the streamtool checkinstancemetrics, streamtool checkdomainmetrics, streamtool getdomainmetrics, and streamtool checkresourcemetrics commands to view the metrics data.
- Operator model
  An operator model is an XML document that describes the basic properties of a primitive operator.
- Streams Processing Language (SPL)
  Streams Processing Language (SPL) is a distributed data flow composition language that is used in Teracloud® Streams. SPL has primitive types, program structures, and definitions that are tailored for streaming data.
- SPL Compiler
  The SPL compiler is an incremental compiler that generates artifacts needed to run your stream application. These artifacts include, for example, C++ code for several entities in your SPL program and an application bundle file.
- Toolkits
  A toolkit is a set of SPL artifacts, which are organized into a package. Toolkits make SPL or native functions and primitive or composite operators reusable across different applications.
  - Specialized toolkit requirements and restrictions
    Several of the specialized toolkits require RPMs that are not required by the Teracloud® Streams product. There are also toolkit restrictions on some platforms.
  - Toolkits
- SPLDOC markup
  You can use SPLDOC markup in the descriptions associated with the SPL artifacts in a toolkit. The spl-make-doc command generates HTML documentation from the marked up artifacts.
Glossary
Use this glossary to find terms and definitions for Teracloud® Streams.

Customizing applications

After you create and configure a TEDA application, you can customize it to suit your environment and business needs.

Customization is the process to adapt a Lookup Manager or ITE application to your business data schemes and to implement the business rules.

The configuration step focuses on the built-in features of the application framework by enabling, disabling, or configuring features. Customization requires deep knowledge of the processed data, the business rules that are applied, and the expected results.

Typically, the Lookup Manager application is adapted by using a single XML file while the ITE application requires SPL development skills.

Before you begin

Create an application.
Configure an application. Configuration and customization are two iterative steps. There is no strict order for both steps.

About this task

When you finish creating an application with the wizard, you have a sample application with a default configuration and customization. You can run the sample application with the packaged sample data to determine whether you have a complete and running application.

Typically, you want to adapt the application to your business needs. This adaption requires configuration and customization steps.

Customizing the Lookup Manager application: To customize the Lookup Manager application, adapt the LookupMgrCustomizing.xml file and, if your enrichment data is read from a database, the connections.xml file.

Customizing the ITE application: To customize the ITE application, disable the sample code and adapt the customizable composite operators.