About the Main Windows and Wizards - SAS Data Integration Studio 3.3 User's Guide - page 24

A transformation template is a process flow diagram that includes drop zones for
metadata that the user must supply to make the transformation complete. A template
typically consists of a transformation object and one or more drop zones for sources,
targets, or both, as shown in the following display.
Display 3.9 SAS Sort Transformation Template
There are several kinds of drop zones:
￿ Dashed line boxes. Before a template is populated with the minimum sources and
targets, drop zones are indicated by dashed line boxes, as shown in the previous
display.
￿ Lines between objects in a process flow diagram. After a template is populated
with the minimum sources and targets, drop zones are indicated by lines between
objects in the process flow diagram, as shown in Display 3.6 on page 20.
￿ Transformation objects themselves. Transformations that can take multiple inputs
or outputs have drop zones on the transformation itself.
The SAS Sort template that is shown in the previous display could be used to create
the diagram that is shown in Display 3.6 on page 20. For a summary of how you can
use the Process Editor and the Process Library tree to create a process flow diagram for
a job, see “Creating, Running, and Verifying Jobs” on page 99.
Java Transformations and Generated Transformations
The Process Library tree contains two different kinds of transformations: Java
plug-in transformations and generated transformations (formerly called SAS code
transformations).
Java plug-in transformations are created with the Java programming language.
Examples include most of the default transformations in the Analysis folder, such as
SAS Sort and SAS Splitter.
Generated transformations are created with the Transformation Generator wizard.
Examples include the default transformations in the Output folder and the Publish
folder. With the exception of the User-Written Code transformation, which is a Java