AccuBridge for Eclipse

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AccuBridge™ for Eclipse provides developers and release engineers with an out-of-the-box robust integration between AccuRev® software configuration management (SCM) and the industry-leading Eclipse IDE platform. Combining Eclipse with the power of AccuRev software in a single integrated development environment increases the agility, reliability, and quality of your geographically distributed, parallel and Agile software development process.

The Power of AccuRev
AccuRev's software configuration management (SCM) solution is architected to solve the problems associated with today's complex software development environments, while bridging the needs of both developers and managers to improve productivity and lower total cost of ownership. The AccuRev interface, with integrated issue-based workflow, advanced visualization, process automation, and artifact traceability, improves collaboration, visibility and management of multiple, parallel releases, and enables geographically distributed and outsourced teams to remain agile and competitive.

AccuRev is a best-of-breed software configuration management (SCM) solution, which often forms the core of an ALM framework, with unique capabilities that enhance and extend complementary development tools. This provides you with maximum control by offering the flexibility to choose the best lifecycle tool for your unique requirements, versus being locked in to a tool offered by a single-vendor suite. The result is an ideal mix of productivity with traceability and auditing for distributed, parallel projects and Agile teams of all sizes.

Integrate AccuRev and Eclipse

AccuBridge for Eclipse enables developers to utilize much of the AccuRev workspace functionality without ever leaving their familiar Eclipse IDE environment. Eclipse developers gain a transparent, stable, and highly functional environment with stream-based process automation and private workspaces for doing complex, distributed application development. This includes performing common operations on workspaces, such as keep, promote, file moves, and file renames. Full integration between Eclipse and AccuRev change packages enables developers and release engineers to update issue status in AccuRev from within Eclipse.

AccuBridge for Eclipse provides a full implementation of the Team Sync View, and shows file decorations for each file's AccuRev status. The AccuRev perspective groups common views together to simplify working with AccuRev in Eclipse.

AccuBridge for Eclipse helps increase the visibility of project activities. For example, icons give visual indicators of file status, such as backed, stale, or overlapped, within Eclipse. All common AccuRev searches are available from Eclipse so that developers, release engineers, and managers can query the AccuRev server for the latest source code changes. Standard Eclipse views, including History, Team Synchronization, Merge and Diff enable developers to use familiar Eclipse tools backed by the advanced SCM capabilities of AccuRev.

The AccuBridge Advantage

AccuBridge for Eclipse provides developers transparent access to the power of AccuRev without leaving their Eclipse IDE
Eclipse is an ideal platform for integrating best-of-breed Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions. SCM vs. ALM
AccuRev provides robust integration with the open Eclipse platform, with improved usability for developers and rich exposure of AccuRev functionality within the Eclipse environment.
Full integration between Eclipse and AccuRev Change Packages enforces process and enables developers to interact with issue-based engineering workflow directly from Eclipse

AccuBridge for Eclipse Features

AccuRev Perspective provides the appropriate visible actions and views to facilitate virtually all common AccuRev operations so developers can"live in Eclipse" and still derive all the benefits of AccuRev
Change Package integration with Eclipse provides full-featured issue-based software development
AccuRev Project Wizard enables easy creation of Eclipse projects from AccuRev controlled source code
Full support for the Eclipse native Diff and Merge tools
New history actions: Browse and Diff against active history; "Compare With" menu exposed for differencing between private workspace and history; populate workspace with selected version
Full support for the Eclipse native History view
Full support for the Eclipse Team Synchronization view
Visual indicator icons increase visibility of project activities
Full access to AccuRev element status queries directly within Eclipse