Do you know any product like Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 that solves the parallel development pain/conflict for j2EE development?
Best regards
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I have no experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, but a combination of source control, continous integration (like Hudson) and a good issue tracker / collaboration tool (like Trac) gives a good overview of current activities / quality over time / current issues / progress while allowing for collaboration through wikis and the issue tracker. Mailing lists and an IRC channel can be a good additions for more permanent and live discussions respectively.
In my opinion Trac is really nice since it is easy to use, has a 'team timeline' and shows great information - code diffs along with issue numbers and developer comments bundled together - giving a great 'togetherness' feeling in the team.
The continous integration solution can provide many different code and quality metrics over time without manual intervention. Great for management.
disown
2010-08-24 12:44:17
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If you don't mind to pay for good products you can look at Teamcity & Youtrack by Jetbrains. They provide useful tools for team programming.
If you work on an open source project, you can give a try to Hudson & Jira.
And Subversion or git will be a good way to manage your sources.
(Teamcity is free for an open source projects too)
Colin Hebert
2010-08-24 12:49:22
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Saros - Distributed Collaborative Editing and Distributed Party Programming
Pretty cool, just requires eclipse and a xmpp server.
Andreas_D
2010-08-24 12:52:02
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I'm currently working in a team of 15 or so Java devs. I don't feel any pain of development. This is an environment using Maven, Subversion & Atlassian tools mainly. Maven makes it comparatively easy to build even large projects. Subversion does a decent job of updating & merging where necessary. Atlassian tools handle bug tracking, code review and automated builds but cost $$$. You could get by with Bugzilla and Hudson.
If by parallel you mean everyone gets their own branch then I suppose you could go with Clearcase but get ready to kiss your budget, sanity and productivity goodbye. Git might be a better choice for that kind of thing.
locka
2010-08-24 13:06:57