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Accelerate and automate the build process

with IBM Rational ClearCase and Ant

Kevin Lee (kevin.lee@uk.ibm.com), Technical Consultant, IBM
Kevin Lee is a Technical Consultant for IBM Rational Software. He has over a decade of hands-on experience in a variety of software development roles, including coding, testing and software configuration management. He is currently working in the field, helping customers to successfully deploy IBM Rational Software's development tools and processes. Kevin can be reached at kevin.lee@uk.ibm.com.

Summary:  This tutorial introduces you to Ant and its existing integration with ClearCase. It describes how to extend the integration by creating some new tasks. You'll see some real life examples of the integration in action.

Date:  11 Jun 2004
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (105 KB | 15 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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A repeatable and reliable build process has always been one of the fundamental principles of software development. Build processes often start out as manual and laborious exercises, evolving into something more structured and automatic over time. To help this evolution there are a vast array of tools, both commercial and open source. IBM® Rational® ClearCase® has always had powerful build capabilities, with build avoidance, build auditing, and build distribution enabled through use of its multiversion file system (MVFS) and clearmake technologies. Similarly, in the Java™ world, Apache Ant has long been the preferred build tool, because of its deep integration into the Java environment and its extensibility. There is no reason however, why both tools can't be used together, and in fact Ant's extensibility allows us to hook in to some of the more powerful features of ClearCase.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Ant and its existing integration with ClearCase. Then, you will learn how to extend the integration by creating new tasks. Finally, this tutorial gives you real life examples of the integration in action.

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