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Jazz Working in Concert With Rational


By Jeff Feinman
October 29, 2007 — 
IBM’s Jazz collaboration environment is getting closer to product form.

John Kellerman, IBM Rational’s product manager for Jazz and Eclipse strategy, said that the second beta of Rational Team Concert, the first Jazz-based commercial product, should drop in early December and become generally available in mid-2008. Team Concert is a agile-oriented, real-time collaboration portal for software development teams.

“It’s coming along nicely, and we’re engaged with the community and getting good feedback,” Kellerman said. “It’s always going to be forward-looking; we’re going to continue to evolve.”

With application life cycle management heading toward an era of openness and third-party tools, Kellerman said that the Jazz collaboration environment is in line with that trend. Companies such as CollabNet and Kovair, as well as the Eclipse project, have developed methods of integrating disparate tools from different makers to link different aspects of ALM. In the past, analysts criticized IBM’s Rational suite for not integrating its tools. Kellerman said that because Jazz is built on Eclipse, it could offer that level of integration.

Originally, Jazz was an integration platform for tool-building, but it has been refactored into an Eclipse integration platform for building applications. “What you have in the Jazz platform is an open, extensible platform built on Eclipse, so it’s using an extensibility model that we all know,” Kellerman said. “And that is precisely why we did it. By building on this open-standard infrastructure, we are engendering that kind of community growth, including third-party offerings.”

IBM has also announced that three universities were given Jazz Faculty Grants in an attempt to further communication and collaboration capabilities among software development teams. The University of California, Irvine is exploring the use of multimonitor environments to improve project awareness and development practices. Two Canadian universities, the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria, are utilizing the collaboration capabilities of Jazz and researching software development team interactions and communication.

The University of British Columbia is involved in the Emergent Teams project, using the Emergent Expertise Locator tool, which was built as an extension to the Jazz platform. The Emergent Expertise Locator recommends members of an emergent team for a current problem, deriving information for how files have changed in the past and who has participated in such changes.

Meanwhile, the University of Victoria has developed prototypes that address challenges in software collaboration by helping team members visually understand social and artifact relationships.

“If you think about what’s happening in education these days, there’s a lot more team projects, such as programming projects, that are taking something through the life cycle,” Kellerman said. “We’ve got several organizations interested in applying Jazz in an instructional setting, to allow students to collaborate among themselves and with the faculty. That’s pretty exciting.”


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