Table of Contents
4 webMethods Version Control System Integration Developer’s Guide Version 7.1.1
4. Using the VCS Integration Feature in Developer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Working with an Integrated Version Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
About Unlocking Elements with Integration Server Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Adding Packages and Elements to the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Modifying Elements That Are In the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the VCS Integration Feature with Coded Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Copying or Moving a Java Service in Developer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Copying a Java Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Moving a Java Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Labeling Java Services in the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Checking Out Packages and Elements from the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Checking In Packages and Elements to the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Reverting Changes to a Checked Out Package or Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Getting the Latest Version from the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Getting an Earlier Version from the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Deleting Packages and Elements from the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying, Moving, and Renaming Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copying and Moving Folders and Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Renaming Packages, Folders, and Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Restoring Deleted Packages and Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Restoring a Deleted Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Restoring a Deleted Folder or Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Viewing the History of a Folder or Element in the VCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Enabling and Disabling the VCS Integration Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Temporarily Disabling the VCS Integration Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Enabling the VCS Integration Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Permanently Disabling the VCS Integration Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
5. Working in a Shared Development Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
General Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Implementing a Shared Development Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Working with a Single Integration Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Working with Multiple Integration Servers and VCS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Working with Multiple Integration Servers and One VCS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Sharing Packages Among Integration Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Locking Files in a Shared Development Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Importing a Package from Another Integration Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
About the Manifest File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Behavior of the manifest.v3 File When Creating a New Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Understanding Multiple User Accounts and VCS Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
