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| July 6, 2007 10:15 AM EDT |
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Perforce Software has been attending JavaOne since 2003, and initially found success with its Eclipse IDE plug-in to the Java development crowd, according to Principal Product Consultant John Walker, who also talks about the Perforce Visual Client (P4V) in this JavaOne 2007 interview.
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Perforce Software announced the availability of the SDK for the Perforce Defect Tracking Gateway. Using the SDK, customers and vendors can develop improved integrations to commercial and in-house issue tracking systems, strengthening project management capabilities throughout the development lifecycle. The SDK is part of the newest version of Perforce’s Fast Software Configuration Management (SCM) system, Perforce 2007.3.
Christopher Seiwald, president and chief technology officer of Perforce Software said, “We believe SCM is at the core of ALM and is the hard part of the technology proposition to get right. From small development shops to massive installations, our customers view Perforce’s ability to integrate tightly with other tools as a major asset in building their custom ALM solutions.”
According to Jim Duggan, vice president of research at Gartner, Inc., "Large companies often have multiple technology lifecycles to manage and coordinate. An ALM solution woven from integration-friendly best-of-breed solutions is an important option, improving visibility and control without major disruptions to the development process."
New SDK is a Flexible Framework for Plug-in Development
The SDK is a flexible source code framework designed for the rapid development of new plug-ins that can be used to implement customized ALM solutions. Using a visual configuration editor, the mapping of fields between an external defect tracking system and the Perforce SCM system is easily defined. The editor includes the ability to map data sets contained in multi-value listboxes with point and click simplicity.
The one-way or two-way replication of data can be implemented on a field by field basis. In addition, the defect tracking gateway automatically propagates changes by means of a built-in replication engine that ensures updates to the defect tracking system and Perforce are always in sync.
“We have always espoused best-of-breed over the one-stop-shop approach,” said Seiwald. “We lead the world in SCM performance and scalability and there is no suite solution that stacks up. This SDK further enables our customers to add the project management and process automation tools they choose.”
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