Time to upgrade your IBM Jazz environment to 7.0!

IBM has released its updated Jazz platforms, and in the process rebranded most of the tools. As of this writing you can now download the updated parts from Passport Advantage, but Jazz.net will be available for download shortly. The products have been rebranded as follows: Old Name New Name Acronym Rational Continuous Engineering IBM Engineering … Read more

Monitoring the status of builds in Team Concert

No matter what version of Team Concert you are using, the following tips will apply. You can monitor the status of each step in your automated build using the following two ANT elements:startBuildActivity, and completeBuildActivity.These two should be treated like bookmarks to an atomic grouping of ANT tasks. For example, in your build file, you … Read more

Upgrading to RTC 2.0 – Lessons Learned

I have recently been upgrading my Jazz/Team Concert environment to version 2.0 from 1.0. I’m using the Express-C version which is based on Apache Tomcat and Derby. These versions come in a zip file format and can easily be extracted out on a Linux server and started with minimal configuration. Upgrading from one to the … Read more

IBM’s Rational Jazz project

IBM is announcing at the Rational Software Developer conference, Rational Team Concert, a commercial product built on the Jazz project. While this has been buzzing around the Java community since it was demoed at JavaOne last year in 2005. The goal of this project is to be to team collaboration what Eclipse has been to … Read more