Configuration management is an important part of any project and integration of the CM tool with the IDE makes developers life cool. In this post I am going to explain how to integrate Visual Source Safe with WebSphere Integration Developer.

There is one plugin available for integrating VSS with WID. First you need to download version 1.6.0 of VSS plugin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/vssplugin/. Extract the plugin to some directory and copy the ‘org.vssplugin_1.6.0′ to WID_installation directory\eclipse\plugins\ directory. If your WID is not running start it and if it is running just restart the IDE. Once the WebSphere Integration Developer is up click on About ->About IBM WebSphere Integration Developer -> Plugin Details. This would bring all the currently installed plugins. If your installation was successful you will see an entry with plugin name as ‘VSS Plugin Functions for Eclipse’ and provider as ‘Marcus Nylander (marcus.nylander @ bredband.net)’. The version displayed will be 1.6.0 and plugin id will be ‘org.vssplugin’.

Now go to Window -> Preference -> Team -> VSS for configuring any general settings. Also from Window ->Preferences -> Workbench -> Label Decorations, make sure that ‘VSS Plugin Team Decorator’ is checked. If you are not able to find the Team option in Window -> Preferences, go to Preferences->Work bench->Capabilities and enable the Team capability or just right click on any project and select Team -> Share Project. From the window opened select VSS Configuration Wizard and click on Next, now the WebSphere Integration Developer would ask you to enable the team feature as its not enabled. Just say yes :-).

To integrate the given project with right click on the project and select Team -> Share Project -> VSS Configuration Wizard and enter your details. Now from within the IDE you would be able to check in/check out files from VSS.

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