Re: Clear Case and automation

["Mike Stockman" <mstockman -at- mac -dot- com>]

I recently went through this process, although not with ClearCase (we 
use several other source control systems where I work). Is there 
something special about ClearCase that makes automation easier or harder?

In our situation, we automated the production of FrameMaker files to 
WebWorks output with a pricey ($2500 give or take... we got half price 
for no good reason) tool from Quadralay called WebWorks Automap 
<http://www.quadralay.com/products/wwam/default.aspx>

There are a number of ways to use Automap, including scheduling jobs to 
run at certain times, or using your own scripts to create and run a job 
from the command line (which was our solution). I believe Automap 
supports running a script before or after the job, so you could script 
the process of getting the latest files from ClearCase before starting.

There's also a PDF add-on to Automap, but we didn't use it... instead, 
we use FrameScript to script printing a book to PostScript, then distill 
the output to PDF.

Hope this is useful,
Mike

David Tinsley wrote on 05/19/2004, 7:57 AM:

 > Our company is in the process of implemting Clear Case. The
 > implementation
 > manager would like to be able to take our source Frame files and
 > automatically run them through Web Works to produce the .chm and .h
 > outputs.
 > We currently perform this process ourselves and pass the required
 > files to
 > the SW group.
 >
 > Has anyone had experience of an automated process? How it is done, how
 > easy
 > to implement, any reference sources etc.

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