Re: Websphere team environment

Jeremy,

The "Team" perspective has a slightly misleading name (I'm not sure why IBM ended up with that name). I think that it was a way to introduce the concept of versioning to iSeries developers.

In reality, you don't need to have a team to make productive use of the "Team" capabilities. What the Team concept gives you is versioning control, using CVS or Subversion. The advantages of versioning are:

* Capability to roll back your changes.
* Keep a history of your changes.
* Compare with previous versions.
* Merge your changes with somebody else's code.
* Create alternate versions ("branches") that allow you to test ideas or fix problems or introduce new features, but allowing you to "switch" between your production code and your "branched" version.
* See who and when a change has been made.
* Create "patches"
* And much more.

In order to work as a team, you basically create a CVS or Subversion repository in a separate server (it may be one of your PC), and everybody will have to check out, refresh, and check in their source code to this repository.

Be aware that you need a CVS or a Subversion server to take full advantage of the Team features. Please Google for "cvs" or "subversion", and take a look to some tutorial. Most of the tutorials use the command line, but just skim over those parts and focus on having a general understanding of the concepts.

Please look for the thread about Subversion in the midrange forum.

Good luck!

Luis

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Hello all,


I wanted to know does anybody use the team environment in Websphere and
how do you set that up? How does it connect with everyone else
Any advice would be surely helpful.









Thanks,

Jeremy R. Rowden
Nippon Express USA, Inc.
Information Systems Division
850 N. Edgewood Avenue, Suite A
Wood Dale, IL 60191
Phone: (630) 451-7447
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