Setting up the client
You have seen the Rational Team Server basic and administrative setup. Now, you will see the Rational Team Concert client features and how to set it up. Rational Team Concert 2.0.2's client is based on Eclipse 3.4.2 and allows you to do variety of tasks:
Accept a team invitation
Connect to a project area
Create a project area
Create project plans
Create work items
Define process templates
Import the source code from SVN, ClearCase
Create team builds
In the Enterprise installation, the client is installed as one of the components and is supplied with its own JDK to run out of the box. You can start the Rational Team Concert client from <root>\jazz\client\eclipse\eclipse.exe
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Rational Team Concert client asks for the location of the workspace. This is the workspace location where any new project is created and/or imported, as shown in the following screenshot:
Once the workspace is selected, Rational Team Concert's client is started and the Welcome screen appears, as follows...