Client extensions

Client extensions can be written either on the Eclipse client or web client. On the Eclipse client, you can extend several aspects of Team Central, Actions, Events, and others to make it more relevant to the organization and team. You can extend the web client to have specific custom-built viewlets on the Dashboard. In both cases, you would need to set up the Eclipse client and make use of the Rational Team Concert's SDK libraries.

Extension development

We will now develop, debug, and deploy a simple Extension to Rational Team Concert's Eclipse client. Specifically, we will contribute a whole new section to the Rational Team Concert's Team Central view.

Start the Eclipse client that's configured with the SDK target environment plugins. Create a plugin project with a meaningful name and open the plugin.xml editor. Add org.eclipse.ui, org.eclipse.core.runtime and com.ibm.team.jface to the plugin dependencies in the Dependencies tab. Go to the Extensions tab in the editor and...