Tool Mentor: Creating a Development Workspace Using Rational ClearCase
Purpose
This tool mentor describes how to create a private workspace for individual work. A 'private workspace' is isolated from the workspaces of other team members. It provides a place for a developer to make changes to the system without seeing or affecting other developers' changes.
Related Rational Unified Process activity:
Overview
This tool mentor is applicable when running Windows 95/98/NT 4.0.
For development work, each team member needs to create and name a workspace that provides a stable, unchanging working environment. With ClearCase UCM, a workspace consists of a ClearCase stream and a view associated with that stream.
Tool Steps
Each developer uses an individual development stream for performing work in isolation from the rest of the team. Development views provide access to the source files and activities in your development stream In the UCM model, this is typically done by a developer when joining a UCM project. Private work areas, called development work areas, can also be created any time in the course of working on a UCM project. The general steps are:
See The Join Project
Wizard help for detailed information.
1. Review project information 
Before creating a work space, review the project's existing streams and views
taking note of the names and locations of streams and views and the types of
views (snapshot or dynamic) that are in use.
For detailed information on
steps to this procedure, see the following ClearCase help topic
- "Review the Project's Streams" in the Join Project Wizard Help
2. Choose view information
This information includes the view name, storage location for the view, and type
of view -- dynamic or snapshot.
For detailed information on
steps to this procedure, see the following ClearCase help topics:
- When to Use Different View Types
- To Choose a Location for the View-Storage Directory help topic
3. Attach the view to a stream
For detailed information on
steps to this procedure, see the following ClearCase help topic:
- To Attach a New View to an Existing Stream
