Team Development in Sybase WorkSpace

Sybase WorkSpace supports a synchronized and collaborative team development environment.

Collaborative development involves team members working on the same project developing source code simultaneously. The current code is stored and becomes part of the historical record of changes. This environment allows you to:

Use the built-in reference manager for WorkSpace resources to help with dependency checking and resource management.
Export and import projects.
Use project templates to save development time to share best practices.

For Eclipse-based Repository Exploring, Eclipse provides a Concurrent Versions System (CVS) team programming environment where team members complete work using the Workbench, the private work area of each developer, and then share this work to the CVS repository.

The Sybase WorkSpace SybStore is an example of how CVS can be used. Multiple developers contributed resources to the design and development of the project used to run the Tutorials and Samples for Sybase WorkSpace.

The following are required for collaborative team development:

Software configuration management (SCM) that manages the source code
Tools that work with the SCM system
Development tool integration
Change request management
Messaging and event notification
Shared task and calendar
Shared delivery system

See the Workbench User Guide for a Team CVS tutorial that will help you decide if you want to use collaborative development with your team. You can download the CVS server from http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/.