Eclipse plugin for TeamSite

Are there many people using Eclipse with TeamSite? How are they managing the code? Are you using a teamsite branch? If so what's the best way to push/pull code from your IDE to TeamSite.

As we all know, TeamSite is not very developer centric, with **** spread all over the install base and workarea to make a project run. I'm trying to find the best way to consolidate each project/branch for development.

I remember TeamCode had a plugin for eclipse but that's dead. It would be great to hear from Interwoven regarding the story around the plugin. Was the plugin usable? If there are no plans to bring this back, would Interwoven consider releasing the plug in the public in the hope that it may be further developed?

What's the best way to manage TeamSite code, collectively as projects?

Thanks

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Bill Klish

I am giving a presentation on this exact topic at Gear Up this year. Come check it out (sorry for the plug....)

We use eclipse, cvs, opendeploy and TeamSite to manage changes to TeamSite. We work within Eclipse to develop all the code components and use its natural integration with cvs to provide the version management of code resources. We use OpenDeploy 6.0.2 SP1 which has native support for cvs to pull the code out of cvs, and deploy to the TeamSite server.

For the most part 90% of the customizations we do for TeamSite (form api call server, workflow, action items, portlets, etc.) are Java based, we are managing all changes as additions to the customer ui toolkit.

Hope that helps,
-Bill

Johnny

Sounds good!

I was going, but unfortunately I had the rug (money) pulled out from under me.
Hopefully the info will be posted after the event.

I was looking into CVS for this - I had hoped we could keep this in using TeamSite.

reddyl

I use eclipse to develop perl scripts, workflows, DCT's, TPL's locally. I configured eclipse to pull/push files using the samba mount of TeamSite install directory.

Johnny

I guess that would be fine if you are the only developer on that system. We need to go through some sort of version control system. TeamSite looked like the obvious choice (we use it now) but the disapearance of the eclipse plugin is making us think of alternatives. Maybe CVS is worth a shot.

It would be great if someone from IWOV could comment here... especially about my first post (making the plugin public).

Migrateduser

The TeamCode plug-in utilized a (now) down-level version of Eclipse and relied on OpenAPI for accessing TeamSite. If you were to develop a new plug-in, you'd be using new APIs on both sides (i.e., updated Eclipse and CSSDK).

OpenDeploy includes a CVS payload adapter (as well as payload adapters for several other popular SCMs.) You can sync or stage your SCM-housed code with TeamSite (or ControlHub which is based on TeamSite technology) using OD with an adapter. There are best practices for doing this (referred to by Interwoven as the Content Provisioning Solution.) The OpenDeploy forum is an appropriate place to discuss.

Johnny

Thanks Todd,

... any plans for a new plugin?..

Don't IWOV engineers use TS as a SCM?.. How do they integrate with their desktop (don't say samba)?.

Migrateduser

No plans for a new plug-in. We're seeing increased interest in sync'ing code and content using OpenDeploy with SCM payload adapters.

sasconsul

Todd,

So Interwoven is not interested in the SCM market? I want to integrate my developers with the UI people. Having an Eclipse Plugin on top of teamsite's OpenDeploy would help.

Stuart

Bill Klish

Well there sort of is already. You can access your SCM repository via opendeploy adapters already (VSS, cvs, clearcase, etc.). What exactly are you looking to do?