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IBM Rational Build Forge to build the open source project Jakarta Tomcat. Rational Build Forge products integrate into your current environment and support major development languages, scripts, tools and platforms. Create a continuous integration environment for Tomcat, with builds occurring whenever changes are committed to the Tomcat Subversion repository.

IBM Rational Build Forge Training Curriculum

Introduction to the Build Forge system

Creating a Build Forge Project – Projects, Environments, and Steps, Configuring a Build Forge Project – Servers, Collectors, and Selectors, Optimizing a Build Forge Project – Chaining and Threading, Build Forge Adaptors, Executing a Build Forge Project – Scheduling, Results, and the Bill of Materials (BOM), Build Forge IDE Plug-Ins, Appendix: Reporting with Quick Report

Creating, running, and scheduling a Rational Build Forge project

Creating a server authentication, Creating a selector and server, Creating a project, Running the project, Scheduling a project

Creating and using

Rational Build Forge libraries, Creating a library, Copying a project
Inlining a library, Using a library as part of a pass or fail chain

Rational Build

Forge administration: Controlling user access, Creating users and access groups, Creating a user, Creating an access group for notifications, Creating an access group for editing projects, Using subgroups to set up hierarchical access
Creating access groups, Editing access groups to specify subgroup relationships

Using log filters

In Rational Build Forge for Ant builds, Creating a log filter, Using a log filter in a project

Environment

Variables in Rational Build Forge, Creating an environment with standard variables, Running a project with different environment settings, Pulldown environment variables, Running a project with pulldown environment variables

Dot commands in Rational Build Forge

Changing build tags with the retag command, Accessing system information with the date command26, Moving files with the put and get commands, Changing a selector with the bset command, Exporting a project with the export command, Using a source command in an environment variable