Build System Toolkit

A typical installation topology of the IBM® Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution includes one or more build computers, and each build computer has an installation of the Rational Team Concert™ Build System Toolkit.
There are three major components of the Build System Toolkit:
Jazz™ Build Engine
The Jazz Build Engine is a command-line tool that polls for and processes build requests from Rational Team Concert. When the Jazz Build Engine is started, it must identify a corresponding build engine in Rational Team Concert. The Jazz Build Engine can then accept any build request whose build definition is supported by the build engine. The Jazz Build Engine runs the Ant script and targets that are specified in the build definition. Each build is represented in Rational Team Concert by a build result.
Build toolkit
The build toolkit is a collection of Ant tasks that Ant scripts can use to send information (such as build progress, results, links, artifacts) to Rational Team Concert to include in the build result.
Build agent
The build agent is a lightweight process for handling agent-based builds, mainly in support of z/OS® or IBM i build scenarios. In the IBM Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution, use the Jazz Build Engine instead.
Note: It is easy to confuse the build engine with the Jazz Build Engine. The Jazz Build Engine is a component of the Build System Toolkit, and refers to the process that runs on a build computer and runs Ant scripts. The build engine is the corresponding logical object in the Jazz Team Server that Rational Team Concert uses to effectively dispatch work to the Jazz Build Engine on a build computer.

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