Rational CM API introduction

The IBM Rational® CM API is a unified Java™ API through which you can access Rational products (including ClearCase® and ClearQuest® for this release). The Rational CM API extends the WVCM (Workspace Versioning and Configuration Management) API, which is a standard Java API for configuration management (see http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=147).

IBM Rational software products provide a comprehensive set of integrated tools that facilitate the best practices in software engineering and cover the entire software development lifecycle. Traditionally, each Rational product has had its own API that provides access to its product-specific repository. The Rational CM API provides one unified API for access to Rational ClearQuest and Rational ClearCase.

You can use the Rational CM API to build client applications that access Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest product applications, and to build new integrations to these products. The client application can be an Eclipse plugin or other Java client application. You can use the Rational CM API to build client applications that: The Rational CM API supports Web views but does not currently support dynamic or snapshot views.

For an introduction to the programming model for the Rational CM API, see Rational CM API object model overview.


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