Rational Clearcase API
Ajay Singh Tomar
I am looking for Rational Clearcase API for my project and have few
questions.
1. Is Rational Clearcase API freeware, licensed or open source? If licensed,
what are the fees?
2. How can I download the API library or source code from Rational site?
Please let me know the URL.
Anxiously awaiting quick reply.
Kind Regards,
Ajay Singh Tomar
Gordon Beaton
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:18:51 +0100, Ajay Singh Tomar wrote:
> I am looking for Rational Clearcase API for my project and have few
> questions.
>
> 1. Is Rational Clearcase API freeware, licensed or open source? If
> licensed, what are the fees?
Please don't multipost. There is no need to post the exact same
question separately to three different newsgroups.
Clearcase is not freeware or shareware. Contact Rational (or IBM?) for
prices, or check their website.
What does this have to do with Java?
/gordon
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Ajay Singh Tomar
Rational has come with Clearcase API for Eclipse. My question was only with
respect to API for Java and not the Clearcase.
Sorry for multiposts.
Regards,
Ajay
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Kind Regards,
Ajay Singh Tomar
"Gordon Beaton" <n...@for.email> wrote in message
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clvrmnky
Most SCM vendors license their API. Making it freeware would make it
impossible to control the API. Every vendor I know of that has a public
API strictly licenses it, and provides it free for anyone who asks.
Sometimes vendors open-source _implementations_ of the API (for example,
a specific integration into some other open-source application), but the
API itself is usually tightly licensed.
Lokesh Joshi
clearcase is a big big sw and rational charges hefty charges per year
for the same. Its available in Unix/Win and Lin, one can have node
locked or floating license sceheme.
i am not sure whats the relation between CC and java apart from
version control, there is no such API exposed for Java, standard
commands are there which u can execute thru java application.
thanx
Lokesh
Gordon Beaton wrote:
> [ Followup set ]
>
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:18:51 +0100, Ajay Singh Tomar wrote:
>
>>I am looking for Rational Clearcase API for my project and have few
>>questions.
>>
>>1. Is Rational Clearcase API freeware, licensed or open source? If
>>licensed, what are the fees?
>
>
> Please don't multipost. There is no need to post the exact same
> question separately to three different newsgroups.
>
> Clearcase is not freeware or shareware. Contact Rational (or IBM?) for
> prices, or check their website.
>
> What does this have to do with Java?
>
> /gordon
>
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Lokesh Joshi
Dale King
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> ajay,
> clearcase is a big big sw and rational charges hefty charges per year
> for the same. Its available in Unix/Win and Lin, one can have node
> locked or floating license sceheme.
> i am not sure whats the relation between CC and java apart from
> version control, there is no such API exposed for Java, standard
> commands are there which u can execute thru java application.
>
> >
> >>I am looking for Rational Clearcase API for my project and have few
> >>questions.
> >>
> >>1. Is Rational Clearcase API freeware, licensed or open source? If
> >>licensed, what are the fees?
There is no Java API from IBM for ClearCase. They provide the ClearCase
Automation Library on Windows for interfacing with ClearCase. This is a COM
interface. You could feasibly use some COM bridge and go at it this way. The
documentation for this is in the cc_cal.chm file in the bin directory of
your CC installation.
But the primary way to interact with CC is through command line commands.
There is a wrapper API as part of Ant that does this. It is freeware. See:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/clearcase.html
Another option is to go with Microsoft's generic SCCI interface. That would
take some JNI code to interface with it.
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