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Plug-ins for Eclipse and Rational Application Developer

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

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

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: