Updating the CIARA database

Curam provides us with a tool called CIARA which allows us to browse around the Curam objects (screens, structs, entities, etc).  This tool is available as a standalone tool (which is significantly faster) or as part of DocCenter (which is more familiar).

Required software

The tool allows us to actually create our own database containing our the custom objects that are implemented as well.  In order to do this, you need to install the standalone tool using InstallCiara.exe.  You need to have a valid Curam development installation (with all the environment settings set up).

Another prerequisite is to download and install AspectJ and set the environment variable ASPECTJ_HOME to the appropriate location.

Creating the CIARA database

1. Go to <ciara_installation_dir>\CIARA\bin\CIARA. 
2. Type in ant all.  This will extract your code and generate the CIARA database for you.  Depending on the speed of your machine and amount of custom code you have (mine is a Thinkpad T60) it can take about 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Type in CIARA and select <ciara_installation_dir>\CIARA\bin\CIARA\CuramApplicationCiaraExtractor\CuramApplication.cdb to browse the database.  If you don't get asked (since the tool remembers the last database you have used, press Ctrl-O.

Updating DocCenter

To update DocCenter, a user has to put in the generated CuramApplication.cdb into <doccenter_installation_dir>\ciaradb.  The CIARA in the DocCenter can be found in Home -> Business Analysts -> CIARA.