Книга: Embedded Linux development using Eclipse

1.4.3 Team Support

1.4.3 Team Support

Eclipse supports programming teams with facilities for placing projects under the control of version and configuration management tools known as “team repository products.” The Platform has extension points and a repository provider API that allow new kinds of team repositories to be plugged in.

Team repository products invariably affect the user’s workflow, for example, by adding overt steps for retrieving files from the repository, for returning updated files to the repository, and for comparing different file versions. Eclipse allows each team repository provider to define its own workflow so that users already familiar with the native tool can quickly learn to use it from within Eclipse. The platform supplies basic hooks to allow a team repository provider to intervene in certain operations that manipulate resources in a project.

At the UI level, the platform supplies placeholders for certain actions, preferences, and properties, but leaves it to each repository provider to define these UI elements. There is also a simple, extendable configuration wizard that lets users associate projects with repositories, and which permits repository providers to extend with UI elements for collecting information specific to that particular repository.

Multiple team repository products can coexist peacefully within Eclipse. The platform includes built-in support for CVS repositories accessed via pserver, ssh, or extssh protocols.

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