ClearCase 7.1.1 and ClearQuest 7.1.1 introduce support for Microsoft Windows 7
You can get trial of this stuff to put onto your shiny new Win7 clients and start to test those vendor promises right away... Rational Clearcase Download Site
Unfamiliar with Rational ClearCase? Well there is plenty to learn, Rational ClearCase is a software tool for revision control (e.g. configuration management, SCM) of source code and other software development. Here's a screenshoot and details from IBM Support describing the explorer window.
The Rational® ClearCase® Explorer window consists of several panes and a toolbar.
By
default, all panes and the toolbar are displayed.
- The toolbar provides quick access to frequently used commands. Move your mouse over the icon to display the command.
- The
shortcut pane holds icons for your views. At the bottom
it has two tabs: Views and Toolbox.
Under the view icon Rational ClearCase lists the view tag, which is the name by which you reference a view.
- The
folder pane identifies the root directory of the current
view, and lists the data repositories, called VOBs, that are accessible
under
that view.
Move your mouse over the root directory to display the view tag and its associated path.
- The
detailspane displays the content of the item you selected
in the folder pane.
When you open the Rational ClearCase Explorer for the first time, with no view selected, or when you click the Getting Started tab in the Shortcut pane, the Details pane then displays a Getting Started Help topic.
The details pane is replaced by a browser pane when it displays information in a Web browser.
- The status bar displays Rational ClearCase messages.
- The
information pane displays information about selected
views and tools in the shortcut pane. The behavior of the information
pane
varies as follows:
- When you first open a view or select it, the information pane displays summary information about the type of view.
- When you select a single item in the Details pane, the information pane displays summary information about the item. If you select more than one item in the Details pane, or an item in the Folder pane, the display changes back to summary view information.
- The information pane is only displayed when the details pane is also displayed. Both are replaced when you display the browser pane.
Ok so that was a bit of Brain dump... but I'm not guilty cos ClearCase is pretty decent and I like what you can do. That said I am generally more interested in the Rational stable based on the Jazz plaform which you can find out about at Jazz.net here is a description from draft 0.24 of the Detailed Architechture Overview of the site.
"The goal of the Jazz Integration Architecture (JIA) is to enable diverse tools to be used together providing an integrated experience to their users. This document provides an overview of JIA, and introduces the notion of a Jazz Team Server (JTS) that provides the Jazz Foundation Services (JFS) that allow groups of tools to work together. It also explains the relationship between JIA and Rational’s Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) initiative."
The fulcrum provides flexible bridges ... simple, logical, functionally rich. Very nice.
More info on World of Rational sometime soon... S
