I would like to know the same thing.

If there is any experience here, please let me know. Otherwise, I intend to attempt it myself and I will provide follow up instructions.

Right now the Team Concert client depends on Eclipse 3.3 M7 but RSA 7 is based on an earlier Eclipse version.

Is it possible to install Jazz into an existing Eclipse 3.3 installation (actually, a development version of RSA)?

As far as I can tell it can't be installed as a plugin as of yet. When using an "out of the box" eclipse installation (V 3.3) and I select a local update site and point to the eclipse folder of the Jazz Team Concert client it allows me to select this folder as a valid update site but then throws the "No features found to install" message.

However I was able to install other plug-ins compatible with Eclipse 3.3 into the TeamConcert shell :).

EDIT: There may be a manual way to do this, however I don't think it was intended to be installed in that way. I would wait for a way that was less of a "hack" before attempting this.

Jared Berbach
Rational Integrations TSE
IBM Software Group - Rational

Dolev Dotan wrote:

Is it possible to install Jazz into an existing Eclipse 3.3 installation (actually, a development version of RSA)?

I have been successfully using the Jazz client as a plugin to the RAD8 build from 6/22/07. The instructions I used came from Ken McClamroch and were approved by Scott Rich. Note this is the client only, the server is installed in a separate folder. I have been working through the Jazz tutorials and have not had any issues.

Here are the steps I took:
Copied <JazzInstall-dir>\jazz\client\eclipse\jazz into RADv8 eclipse directory
Copied <JazzInstall-dir>\jazz\client\eclipse\links into RADv8 eclipse directory (to have Jazz features recognized by eclipse)
Restarted RAD with -clean option

-- Carol Ulbricht

Hi Dolev,

The answer is, it's unsupported but if you hack sufficiently, you may get
something that sort of works :-).
First off, I should clarify that this development RSA build you're using
is an IBM internal, unsupported build, not available to those outside IBM
:-(. Not even sure if we should be talking about this in a public forum.
Second, shell sharing between Team Concert and the Rational stack is
unsupported at this time so you're pretty much on your own if you want to
do this.

That said, I've managed to get some Eclipse 3.3 based test builds of
Rational products to shell share with various Team Concert drops (for
demo/non-production purposes).
The trick is to find a working RSA build that was built on the same exact
Eclipse 3.3 build as the Team Concert drop you're using. You may have
also have to match EMF and GEF versions if possible.
I then copied the contents of the TC\eclipse\jazz folder into the
eclipse\jazz folder of the Rational product and copied the links files
from TC\eclipse\links folder into the eclipse\links folder of the Rational
product.
If that doesn't work for you, I'm afraid you'll have to start "hacking" to
fix up manifest version incompatibilities and whatever other problems come
up. The problems you might run into are unique to each build so you'll
just have to try until it works :-).

Again, I'm not saying IBM sanctions that people try to mix and match
components that weren't designed to work together in this manner. If you
have a non-production need to do this, you can try hacking this yourself
until you can get it working but you will likely have to do it on your
own.

Best of luck and let me know if I can help.