Creating a standardized development environment

This topic provides information about creating a standardized development environment in the Rational ClearCase SCM Adapter. A standardized development environment provides a consistent workspace, build process, and environment settings.

When possible, use Team Project Sets which allow developers to import multiple projects at one time and do not require an understanding of project dependencies. See Import a Rational Developer project for information about importing team project sets.

You can use shared external JAR files for third party components. This practice eliminates dependencies on local build environments and avoids incompatibilities between versions of JAR files. A Rational Developer project must include all JAR files that are necessary to build.

Placing external JAR files under source control allows you to use a common classpath for the external JAR files. If you are using ClearCase UCM, you can store in a common UCM component the JAR files that are shared between multiple projects.

You can also use the Rational ClearCase Preferences to create a standardized development environment.

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