Rational Team Concert Build#

The Rational Team Concert™ Build system defines resources that are used to describe and manage builds.

The Rational Team Concert Build system in IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ defines the following types of logical resources that are used to describe and manage builds:

• Build definition

  A build definition describes:

  • The workspace to process.
  • The Ant scripts and targets to run against the workspace.
  • The schedule for the build.
  • The properties to simplify the configuration of the build.
  • The build engines that can handle build requests for the build definition.
  • Build engine

  A build engine represents a Build System Toolkit Jazz™ Build Engine running on a designated build computer. A Jazz™ Build Engine running on a build computer correlates itself to a build engine in Rational® Team Concert™ by specifying the unique identifier of the build engine.

• Build request

  A build request represents a scheduled or explicitly issued request to run a build according to a specified build definition. Build definitions are submitted to a build queue. A Jazz™ Build Engine receives and processes the build request if its corresponding build engine in Rational® Team Concert™ is listed as a supporting build engine for the build definition.

• Build result

  A build result represents the output of a build.

• Build System Toolkit
  Each build computer contains an installation of the Rational Team Concert Build System Toolkit.

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