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Perforce Releases Gateway SDK


New plug-in builder adds integrations with issue-tracking systems

By Jeff Feinman
December 5, 2007 — 
Perforce Software will release on Dec. 5 an SDK for the Perforce Defect Tracking Gateway, aimed at developers of integrations to commercial and issue-tracking systems.

The SDK is a source code framework designed for rapid development of new plug-ins that can implement customized ALM solutions, according to Nigel Chanter, chief operating officer of Perforce. The mapping of fields between an external defect-tracking system and the Perforce SCM system is easily defined with a visual configuration editor. The editor includes the ability to map data sets contained in listboxes.

Chanter said that because third-party defect traffic vendors were looking for a replication engine, the company added in the SDK a replication engine that can feed issues or bugs into Perforce and copy its information about possible solutions back into the defect-tracking tool. The customer can build a plug-in with the SDK that allows a replicating tool to talk to a defect-tracking tool.

Chanter argued that customer attitudes are swinging from a suite approach back to a best-of-breed approach. “Customers are looking for a really high-quality integration in the tools they’re using,” Chanter said. “I think a lot of the best-of-breed integrations have been more up to the task. Equally, at the end of the day, a large company will end up buying technologies or other companies to basically put together a suite. What we want to do with this SDK is to create a robust integration so customers will feel comfortable that integrations will be rock-solid when they choose best-of-breed technologies.”

The Perforce Defect Tracking Gateway was released in January 2007, and it enables integration of the company’s SCM software with external defect-tracking systems. It is a free add-on to Perforce's SCM system; the 2007.3 release of that system is in beta.


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