Tool Hint for an Access Object
The Tool Hint feature is needed to allow generators to specify how (and whether) their generation append packages should be processed by generic tools. The tool hint is a list of name value pairs at the generator's access object, where each "name" is the access object of such a generic tool and the "value" is any character string (this allows even to store complex processing instructions, filters etc., depending on the particular tool).
We have to distinguish two types of services (=>access objects) here: one is the generating service "A" at which the tool hints are defined for the generation append packages it creates, and there are generic object analyzer/scanner/processor services which need the tool hints in order to process "A"'s generation append packages correctly.
So the tool hints "explain" to some tools (services/access objects) X, Y, Z how to handle the generation append packages created by a service (access object) A. So one would define at the access object definition of A the tool hints required for X, Y, Z.