IBM Rational Team Concert

From June 2011 to May 2012 i am working in one of IBM Business Partner in Jakarta, Indonesia. this Business partner is focusing in IBM Rational product line. and my last project in this company is developing an extension plug-in for Rational Team Concert.

for me, this project in very interesting and challenging. because this is my first creating plugin for a ready use product. this product is totally different from my first project in this company : Websphere commerce server (IBM e-Commerce product), i will write more about the eCommerce project in another article, that will explain how can a Rational Business Partner also doing an Websphere project. 

back to Rational Team Concert Extension, is already prepared with a SDK so developer can create plugin to fulfilled the project needs. And they provide a doc to explain the step to create an extension and then how to deploy and test it from the RTC itself. but even IBM already provide the SDK, the documentation and how-to customizing the plugin is very hard to find. lucky me, our Project Manager could contact the Jazz StartUp Team member, one of those that i rememer is Ralph Schoon. i can get a few sample code how to do the customization. 

Ralph says that i could search and find the sample code in the SDK from the eclipse, but poor me, i can't find the example that he mean.

a few function that i could custom in RTC is like : checking workitem type, checking whether a process is require attachment to be upload or not, adding the approver/reviewer into the predecessor / successor workitem, get the process template type, etc. for the approver / reviewer i had to connect to the LDAP server and run some query to get the supervisor of the related user.

i will separate a few sample code in another article. stay tune :)