Build component of the RTC provides support for the automation, monitoring, and awareness of builds for teams

1. Building withRational Team Concert Build
Managing Buildsin Rational Team Concert
Buildcomponentof the RTC providessupportforthe automation,monitoring,andawarenessof builds
for teams
Buildsystemtoolkitisbasicallyincludesbuild engineandantbuildtoolkit
The followingare the builditemswhichare storedinthe Jazzrepositoryandsupportthe buildprocess:

2.  Builddefinition:Definesabuild,suchasa weeklyproject-wide integrationbuild.
 Buildengine:Representsabuildsystemthatrunsona dedicatedserver.
 Buildrequest:Representsarequesttorun a build.
 Buildresult: Representsthe outputfromabuild.
Andthisbuildrelateditemswill belongstoonlyrespectiveprojectarea.
The Jazz buildengine doesnotinclude a JDK,so bydefaultitwill use the systemJDKorJRE.
Software buildisthe processof gatheringthe source code andotherartifactsto churn theminto
executable software.Modernbuildsalsoprovide traceability,associationbetweenartifactsandwork
items,reproducibility,IDEintegration,andbuildcomparison.Withthe increasingcomplexityof the
software,buildstooare becomingcomplex tomanage.Inthischapter,we will:
 See an overview of the buildengine,buildatoolkit,learnhow todefinethe build,andtrack
progressfromEclipse andthe Web UI
 Work for Sprint2 completionof the BookManagerProjectanddeliverRelease 1.0to the main
developmentline
 Define builds,setupthe buildengine,andtrackthe BookManagerProject'sbuildsfroma
developerandbuilduser'sperspectives
Prerequisites:
Assumming:
The Rational TeamConcert 6.0 serverisalreadysetup, andyou have accessto theserverthrough
Rational TeamConcertEclipse client.
The requiredsource code forbuildispresentinthe Rational TeamConcertprojectareasource control
The BuildSystemToolkithasbeeninstalledbyusingthe IBMInstallationManager.
working with the repository workspace

3. Create a newrepository workspace

7. Selectcomponentsto add to the newrepositoryworkspace

8. Load all of the projectswithin the components

26. Neveruse ProgramFilesasinstall location.Ittendstocreate issues.AvoidID'swithspaces.Iwoulduse
for example engine.ProjectX.

41. BuildUsingSCM.