About Rational Team Concert

A new tool -- RTC -- has been introduced to the market by IBM. RTC follows the tradition of top quality set by the products of the Rational family, which have been build over many years. In addition, RTC is build on the top of the brand new, progressively growing open-source platform Jazz. This fact promises a completely new level of development.

RTC enables real time collaboration of the whole team. Moreover, it integrates all the components that are needed for successful development. Finally, thanks to the Jazz platform, RTC unites other Rational products and enables even better collaboration with other members of the team.

Top features of Rational Team Concert

The RTC desktop client (used as the main user interface) is built on the top of the well known developement environment Eclipse. Next, the Web client, Rational Application Developer plugin and plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio are available.

The list of the main features of RTC includes Planning, Task tracking, Bug tracking, Approvals, Source control, Complete build system and an integrated instant messaging client, which serves even faster and more comfortable communication. This functionality can be, thanks to the Jazz platform and Rational Team Concert Server, used any time, anywhere.

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Rational Team Concert at FI MU

There are currently 2 RTC installations under the lasaris management:

• rtc4.fi.muni.cz - lasaris internal projects
• rtc3.fi.muni.cz - for students of PA165 course

First installation is running the newest edition of RTC (currently 3.0.1), second is also RTC 3.0.1 in CLM 2011 solution and both use DB2 running on a different machine. We use the default Tomcat installation as the application server.

RTC can be accessed either by Web UI or by Eclipse or Visual studio client. Both can be downloaded from jazz.net. As the PA165 course is Java focused, the Eclipse client is the most recommended to the students. RTC Eclipse client is installed at all public Linux desktop machines at the faculty.

Local mirror of the RTC official documentation is served at https://rtc4.fi.muni.cz:9443/clmhelp/index.jsp

rtc3.fi.muni.cz – RTC in lectures

This server is used for collaboration of teams working on the projects for PA165 Enterprise Applications in Java course. This course is taught to over 140 students. Projects are solved in 4-member teams. Students follow the metodology described by custom process created in RMC. Thanks to RTC support of custom processes, the process is reflectected in RTC.

Using RTC is an obligatory part of the course for all the students. The source code of their projects has to be shared using RTC and all work has to be planned using iteration plans and work items. Communication with teachers is also help through RTC. Students have to ask for approval when they want to proceed to a next phase in the project. Comments attached to work items are very useful for both communication among students and between students and teachers. Email notifications make work of teachers much easier and save a lot of time.

Students have the opportunity to learn how to work with RTC in practical hands-on workshop in the begging of the semester. Workshop is taught by IBM Rational Team Concert specialist, who is ready to assist them with any complication they may stumble upon.

rtc4.fi.muni.cz – RTC for academic projects

This server is used for internal projects of lasaris lab. Authentication is provided by Tomcat server, so users can change their password directly in RTC user profile.