CollabNet Desktops for Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio

CollabNet Desktops give developers access to all CollabNet applications from within their existing Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio development environments. This integration works with and is part of all CollabNet products: CollabNet Subversion, CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise, CollabNet Enterprise Edition and CollabNet CUBiT. There are two flavors of the desktop, CollabNet Desktop – Eclipse Edition and CollabNet Desktop – Visual Studio Edition, and both are available as a suite of plugins that provide a natural extension to a developer’s existing toolset.

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• Unified environment for development tasks and project management
• Easy access and management for projects and repositories
• Predefined and custom queries
• Powerful CollabNet Subversion client

• Graphical merge client
• Access to CollabNet CUBiT hosts
• Integrated SSH client
• Manages SSH tunnels

Capabilities

Features / Benefits

Unified environment for development tasks and project management

• Access your Subversion source code repository and CollabNet Enterprise Edition or CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise project artifacts all from within Eclipse or Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Collaborate easily with QA team members from within your development environment by leveraging integrations, such as CollabNet Tracker Connector to HP Quality Center.
• Enjoy usability features for managing CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise projects, such as drag and drop access to documents and file releases.

Easy access and management for projects and repositories

• Add all your CollabNet Enterprise Edition and CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise projects to your workspace by entering only a server URL and credentials.
• Save time and frustration with auto-configuration of related repositories for Subversion and project artifacts – it all happens for you automatically when you add a project to your workspace.
• Automatic project updates ensure that you always see the latest information in your development environment.

Predefined and custom queries

• Users can choose from a long list of predefined queries, such as active tasks or tasks assigned to me, to save time and get started quickly.
• User can create focused queries on tasks of interest, such as those that are assigned to the developer.
• Queries are automatically refreshed with the repository, informing the user of changes to existing tasks as well as creation of new ones that meet the criteria.

Powerful CollabNet Subversion client

• Simplify access to CollabNet Subversion repository and projects.
• Graphical synchronization of workspace and repository makes it easy for the developer to commit their changes as well as be aware of the changes that have been made by other developers.
• Integration with graphical compare and merge editors allows the developer to see the changes they have made or resolve conflicts that occur when integrating the changes from other developers.
• Access to all Subversion features from graphical client allows the developer to stay within their integrated development environment without the need for other tools.

Graphical merge client

• Simplify the process of merging changes between branches.
• Manage the process of resolving conflicts that can happen during a merge.
• Leverage the merge tracking features of CollabNet Subversion.
• CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise and CollabNet Enterprise Edition users can perform merges based on change-sets, which are represented as Project Tracker artifacts. [Eclipse only]

Access to CollabNet CUBiT hosts

• Instant access to your CUBiT projects and hosts. All projects and hosts show up automatically within the Eclipse environment.
• Seamless integration between Eclipse and browser interface allows the user to perform their CUBiT administrative tasks within an integrated browser as well as directly accessing their hosts using Eclipse.
• Ability to launch external SSH client or external Windows Remote Desktop client allows the user to use the SSH client of their choice as well as provides graphical access to Windows hosts.
• Access to filesystem of CUBiT hosts allows the user to easily synchronize changes they are working on locally with a remote host that they are using to test the changes.

Integrated SSH client

• No external SSH client needed. Everything the user needs for SSH access is included. This is especially useful for Windows developers that do not already have an SSH client installed.
• The user has the option of using an external terminal client if they prefer, or if their IDE does not include a fully featured SSH terminal.

Manages SSH tunnels

• Automated management of SSH tunnels needed to access hosts frees the user from the complex task of establishing SSH tunnels. Tunnels are created on-the-fly when the user requests to access the host using either the built-in or external client.
• Establish application-specific tunnels, such as to a web server running on a CUBiT host. This frees the user from having to setup one or more tunnels that are needed to access an application running on a CUBiT host. The user can configure the ports they need access to and have them all connected automatically.