About Integration

Collaborator tightly integrates with Rational Team Concert. The integration helps you easily create reviews for Team Concert's work items, synchronize the list of reviewer participants and work item's approvers, and update the state attribute of users in the Approvals list automatically when the review status changes. For detailed information on the features, see How Integration Features Work.

Supported Versions

Collaborator 12.0 and later supports Rational Team Concert versions 6.0.5 - 7.0.3.

Collaborator 11.1 - 11.5 supports Rational Team Concert versions 4.x - 6.0.5.

If you have Rational Team Concert versions 2.x - 3.x, you will need to downgrade your Collaborator (both Server and Client components) to CodeCollaborator/PeerReview Complete version 6.5.x (as only these versions supported Java 5 required by RTC 2.x - 3.x).

For more details, see Version Compatibility Table section below.

Required Plug-Ins

The integration functionality is provided by two plug-ins:

Both plug-ins can be downloaded from our web site:

http://support.smartbear.com/downloads/collaborator/

For information on installing and configuring the plug-ins and servers, see topics of the Configuring Servers, Clients and Plug-Ins section. We strongly recommend that you read it.

Version Compatibility Table

Different versions of Collaborator servers, Rational Team Concert servers and Eclipse IDEs require different versions of Java environment. To integrate Collaborator and Rational Team Concert you will need to install a specific version of Rational Team Concert server side plug-in and a specific version of Eclipse client side plug-in.

A table below lists the possible combinations:

Technical Details and Limitations

Review Screen, Diff Viewer, Eclipse Plug-in and Visual Studio Extension display atomic changelists (changesets in terms of RTC) in chronological order (from older to newer), regardless the order in which they have been uploaded to review.

Collaborator does not guarantee that Diff Viewer will display correct comparison results for the following cases: