Configuring Eclipse to use the RTC SDK

Last night I was poking around trying to figure out how to write a demo with the Rational Team Concert SDK. My first attempt failed. It wasn't until I found Ralph Schoon's excellent blog post on using the SDK that I finally figured out how to do it.

Since Ralph's post is long and it refers to an even longer PDF, I thought I'd present an abridged explanation:

1. Download the RTC SDK and server. At the time of writing, 4.0.3 is the most recent release, so  you might as well grab that. 
2. Extract the SDK to ~/rtc-sdk.
3. Start Eclipse on a fresh workspace. 
4. Set your target platform by:
1. Open the Eclipse preferences and search for the Target Platform page.
   
   
2. Click "Add" to create a new target platform. Initialize it with "Nothing."
   
   
3. Edit the target platform.
   
   
4. Add an Installation. Point it to ~/rtc-sdk.
   
   
5. Set your target platform as default.
   

You're done! You can now write programs that use the RTC SDK.

To verify that your Eclipse is properly configured, download the attached project, and copy it into Eclipse. Get your server configured and started, then edit Start.java to use the URI of your server and credentials of the user you created.

You can run the test application with the "api demo" Eclipse launcher. It logs into the server, creates a repository workspace named "meow", and then lists all of the repository workspaces owned by the current user. At the very least, you should see "meow" in the Eclipse Console:

Expected output in a properly configured Eclipse