Web Development Mapping Styles

The Rational® ClearCase® Client for Visual Studio .NET supports the following Web development models, or mapping styles, when creating Web applications with ASP.NET.

IIS-based Mapping Style

In this mapping style, an IIS virtual directory is created and mapped to each Rational ClearCase view you use for Web development. The IIS virtual directory uses the same name as the ClearCase view.

For example: http://localhost/MyDynamicView/MyVob/MySolution/MyWebProject/MyWebProject.csproj.

File System-based Mapping Style

In this mapping style, Web projects are created in a ClearCase view, just like other Windows® application projects. Microsoft® Visual Studio includes a Web server called Microsoft Visual Web Developer that supports this Web development method.

All file system mapped Web projects use Visual Web Developer as their local Web server, instead of IIS. Visual Web Developer provides automatic Web server mapping during the design and testing of the Web application.

For example: M:\MyDynamicView\MyVob\MySolution\MyWebProject\MyWebProject.csproj.

Once developed, the Web artifacts are deployed to the production server, which uses IIS.

Note: It is recommended that IBM Rational ClearCase users select file system-based mapping as the preferred Web development model.
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