Plug-ins provide access to Management Console features
from within Eclipse™ and Rational® Application
Developer IDEs.
The following plug-ins are available for the Eclipse and Rational
Application Developer environments:
- Frequency
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With the Frequency plug-in, a developer can complete
these tasks:
- Access one or more Management Consoles to view projects
- Launch jobs
- View job status
- View build logs of running and completed jobs
- Reflector
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The Reflector plug-in run jobs using files in a
local environment. These jobs are commonly run to test new code before
checking it into source control for other developers or production
builds to use.
Eclipse plug-in users have the option to override values for project
environment variables. When you start a Build Forge project, the Job
Settings pop-up is displayed. Changes to environment variables apply
to the job only. Default variable 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 the Console Explorer and
select New Console to configure a connection
to a Management Console. For more information about using Frequency,
see the online 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 online help provided with the plug-in.
Note: The
Reflector plug-in requires the Frequency plug-in.