Plug-ins provide access to Management Console features from within
Eclipse™ or Rational® Application Developer IDEs.
The following plug-ins are available for the Eclipse and Rational Application
Developer environments:
- Available Plug-ins
- Frequency
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The Frequency plug-in provides developer self-service features.
Through it, a developer can launch and view those projects allowed by his
access groups.
When it is installed in your IDE, you can
perform the following actions:
- Access one or more Management Consoles to view preconfigured projects
- View build logs
- Launch builds (including test builds using the developer's local files)
- View status of running builds
- Reflector
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The Reflector plug-in allows developers to run test builds:
builds that use files from the developer's local workspace in a remote
build configured through the management console. This allows you to test code
changes against the actual production build process without checking them
in, or see how your local code performs in a test, integration, or release
build, without impacting others. You can even apply environment variable overrides,
so that different values are used when you run your version of the project.
Eclipse plug-in users have the option to override values for project environment
variables. The Job Settings pop-up displays when you start a Build Forge project.
Changes to environment variables apply to the job only; default variables
values for the project are not changed.
Using the Plug-ins in Eclipse or Rational Application Developer
After you install the plug-ins, you can activate them in the following
ways:
- To access Management Consoles to launch jobs and view project logs, use
the Frequency plug-in. Within your IDE, select .
Your IDE displays a dialog box with a list of perspective types; select the
Build Forge perspective. The system displays the Console Explorer, Build Info,
and Build Log windows. Right-click on the Console Explorer and
select New Console to configure a connection to a Management
Console. For more information on using Frequency, see the on-line help provided
with the plug-in.
Note: If you need to configure access to an LDAP/Active Directory
domain, make sure you use the Build Forge system name for the LDAP domain
object, not the actual name of the domain.
- To run test builds, use the Reflector plug-in. Within your IDE,
configure Reflector by selecting your project and right-clicking. Select Properties from
the pop-up menu. In the Properties dialog's list
of properties options, select Build Forge Project Artifacts.
Configure the dialog with the Build Forge project you want your project to
work with, and select files to be uploaded to the system. For more information,
see the on-line help provided with the plug-in.
Note: The Reflector plug-in
requires the Frequency plug-in.