CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
30 May 2007
Product News
CollabNet® Unleashes First Ever Distributed Software Development Solution Native to the EclipseT IDE
CollabNet announced that it is releasing the first ever development platform which enables distributed software development in a native Eclipse environment. CollabNet Desktop, Eclipse Edition allows software engineers to collaborate globally using CollabNet Enterprise Edition as a backbone to centrally track and manage the lifecycle of all source code and project tasks and assets. As part of this offering, CollabNet is providing a free download of a complete Eclipse perspective for distributed software development, and commercial support subscriptions for its enterprise users.
Leveraging its sponsorship of the Subversion version control tool, CollabNet continues to deliver solutions that bring more collaboration to the software development process. CollabNet Desktop, Eclipse Edition is the first in a series of new free products to be rolled-out in 2007 to extend CollabNet's position as the leading provider of distributed software development solutions. Making free tools available worldwide underscores the company's commitment to distributed organizations that are increasingly driving the growth of software development.
Enterprises and developer communities that run on the CollabNet platform can leverage the integration between CollabNet and Eclipse today. The CollabNet Desktop and related plugins for Eclipse are freely available at http://eclipse.open.collab.net/ or on the Eclipse website. Access to related discussion forums and other community services are also available on openCollabNet ( http://open.collab.net/ ). In addition, CollabNet offers enterprise training, support subscriptions and consulting for the CollabNet Desktop.
"CollabNet makes it faster and easier for developers to use the most advanced development tools available, in powerful synergies, without spending their own time building and configuring disparate tools," said Jack Repenning, CTO of CollabNet. "Developers who are more productive improve software quality and customer satisfaction. At the same time, the enhanced flow of more-reliable planning information enables project managers to plan and resource their projects more accurately, adding further customer value."
Features of the CollabNet Desktop, Eclipse Edition include:
• The use of the Eclipse Mylar task-focused UI to update and synchronize project tasks, issues, or artifacts that are tracked and stored in the CollabNet development platform. These tasks are automatically synchronized with the Subversion based source code trees in Eclipse as well as the CollabNet's repositories for project tasks.
• The use of Subclipse to version and synchronize Subversion-based code hosted in the CollabNet environment.
• The ability to directly search on openCollabNet, http://www.open.collab.net/ to find product extensions and community resources valuable to the Eclipse software developer.
• Direct integration within Eclipse to CollabNet Enterprise Edition to allow collaboration on project tasks and artifacts throughout the software application life cycle.
• A web interface for CollabNet's CUBiT global virtualization solution which allows Eclipse users to automatically load and build their software application using any industry build and test environment onto a dynamically provisioned physical or virtual server located within a pool of globally accessible servers.
Additional details of the CollabNet Desktop, Eclipse Edition will be announced at the inaugural Eclipse Forum India 2007.
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