[Build] - Information about extending Post-Build options.

Hi Chemi, sorry for the delay.

You need to
- Add an extension to the com.ibm.team.build.common.buildConfigurationElements extension point. This allows the user to choose your build participant when configuring a build definition. This typically goes in a .common plug-in, shared between the UI and build engine. It also lists which properties are set by your configuration.

- Add an extension to the extension point: com.ibm.team.build.engine.buildEngineParticipants. This is the code that gets run as part of the build, and refers to the confiuration extension above. Specify POST_BUILD as the build phase.

- Implement your participant class, extending com.ibm.team.build.engine.AbstractPostBuildParticipant

Here are some snippets from the JUnit Publishing participant.

From /com.ibm.team.build.common/plugin.xml:

	<extension

	      point="com.ibm.team.build.common.buildConfigurationElements">

	    <buildConfigurationElement

	          id="com.ibm.team.build.junit.publishing" buildPhase="POST_BUILD"

        	description="%JUnitPublishingConfigElementDescription"

        	name="%JUnitPublishingConfigElementName">

             <configurationProperty name="com.ibm.team.build.junit.publishing.log"/>

             <configurationProperty name="com.ibm.team.build.engine.variable.substitution"/>

	    </buildConfigurationElement>

	</extension>  	

From /com.ibm.team.build.engine/plugin.xml:

	<extension

	      point="com.ibm.team.build.engine.buildEngineParticipants">

    	<buildEngineParticipant

    		id="com.ibm.team.build.internal.engine.JUnitPublishingPostBuildParticipant"

          	class="com.ibm.team.build.internal.engine.JUnitPublishingPostBuildParticipant"

        	buildPhase="POST_BUILD"

          	configurationElementId="com.ibm.team.build.junit.publishing">

    	</buildEngineParticipant>

	</extension>

From /com.ibm.team.build.engine/src/com/ibm/team/build/internal/engine/JUnitPublishingPostBuildParticipant.java:

...

import com.ibm.team.build.engine.AbstractPostBuildParticipant;

...

public class JUnitPublishingPostBuildParticipant extends AbstractPostBuildParticipant {



    public BuildStatus postBuild(IProgressMonitor monitor) throws Exception {

...

    }

}

Thanks a lot Nick. I will try to get a closer look to your code.

I was trying to integrate Rational Software Analyzer with Build System
of RTC. Currently I have done already with RTC Build built-in
capabilities and ANT tasks but I wanted to get further in such
integration and get something similar to Rational Build Forge
integration (its own tab and content).

I am not aware of any plans for that in RSAR product so I will try to
play around with it although I am sure in the future there will be such
official and supported integration.

Thanks again,

Chemi.