Build module

For the Rational Team Concert Enterprise edition, the build system toolkit needs to be downloaded separately from Jazz.net. The downloaded and extracted build toolkit consists of the build engine and toolkit modules. We can use the build component to define and manage builds. This module provides us with build awareness through build progress monitoring, build alerts, build result viewing, and linkage of builds with other artifacts such as change sets and work items. While the build toolkit is best suited for Ant builds, you can use any scripting technology that can invoke Ant such as Perl, batch files, or Make.

The extracted source has the Buildengine and Buildtoolkit directories. The Buildengine directory has the Jazz build engine, which runs as a client to the Jazz server, polling, and processing build requests. The Buildtoolkit directory is the Ant build toolkit, a set of Ant tasks available for use from your Ant scripts for publishing artifacts (for example, downloads, logs...