Extending RTC
Hi, We are planning a significant pilot in the UK and we are looking at extending the current capabilities. I would appreciate your input on the following.
1. To develop a plug-in do I follow the standard Plugin Development used on Eclipse? 2. What messages does the Work Item view broadcast? Can another view listen to them (I am thinking for context sensitive help here on a tab by tab basis). 3. What custom plug-ins for RTC have been developed to date? Rgds Peter |
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Hi. I'm glad to hear you are looking to extend Jazz
1. Two wiki topics should cover the general approach to developing a Jazz extension: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RtcSdk https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/JazzLabs 2. Hopefully somebody from the workitem team can give more details here 3. That's a tough question to answer. People who extend Jazz/RTC do not always tell us what they have done (though we would always love to hear). Inside IBM a collection of Rational products are moving onto the Jazz Platform. Notably, Rational Quality Manager and Rational Requirements Composer should be some of first product to be available based on Jazz. Matt Lavin Jazz Server Team peterkeeler wrote: Hi, We are planning a significant pilot in the UK and we are looking |
I have also had some personal experience extending the Jazz platform in
the Build area. Regards, David Brauneis IBM Rational Build Forge Architecture & Development Matt Lavin wrote: Hi. I'm glad to hear you are looking to extend Jazz |
Hi Peter,
You will find all help that you need on wiki and forums ! I've just start development of a "Item Browser" plugin which allows users to view graphically items and relation between items. Here is a first screenshot of my early early development (Work Item Oriented) Sbastien Etter CapGemini TS |
Sbastien: That looks great! Will it work on any link type, or just links between work items?
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In a first step, links between work items.
In a second step, show all kind of links : - Show all work items linked to an iteration plan, a team area, or a user - Browse a Project Area and all its sub items - etc... I will post soon a link to my Jazz Team Server Thank you for your interest :wink: |
Hi Sbastien,
Nice! In a first step, links between work items. When you use the StandardLabelProvider, support for rendering all link types might come nearly for free (see Work Item's LinkLabelProvider for some special cases). Opening a link can also be done quite transparently using Hyperlinks.open(...). Maybe you can use these hints. Regards, Patrick Jazz Work Item Team |
Many thanks for those that responded. I have been away hence why I have not responded earlier. I will look at the link in more detail over the next few days
It is great to know that there are kindering spirits outthere. Rgds PK |
Thanks Patrick,
I'll try to use these hints ! |
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