The options available on this page depend on what you choose from the Select Version Control System menu:
If other version control systems are added to JBuilder, they will be added to this list. See the OpenTools API documentation and the Concept Document on version control for more information on how to add other version control systems to JBuilder.
CVS is a third-party program and must be installed separately on your machine. The Open Source CVS program is available online from http://www.cvshome.org/ and is on the Companion Tools CD included with JBuilder Enterprise edition. See "Installing and configuring CVS" for instructions on installing and configuring CVS.
To configure your connection to the version control repository for the current project, select Team|Configure Version Control or select Project|Project Properties and choose the Team tab.
To configure your connection to the version control repository for all new projects, choose Project|Default Project Properties.
However, even when you are not using any third-party version control system within the JBuilder IDE, you can still set JBuilder to keep multiple backup copies of your work. You can use the history view to examine previous backup versions of your files within the JBuilder IDE. JBuilder automatically keeps five backup levels of each file, but you can set it to keep none or up to thirty.
To use multiple backups,
To change the backup path of your project, select Project|Project Properties and choose the Paths page. Set the backup path in the Backup Path field. Click OK to save your changes.
When you use a local connection, you can browse to your module location by clicking the ellipsis button (...).
You may enter the domain name or the IP address of the server.
Users of the ssh secure shell, please see the Release Notes in the main Help menu for more information about your specific requirements.
If the repository is on a server, enter the full name of the target repository. If you have any questions about the repository's name, ask your server administrator.
If the repository is local, indicate the path to the repository, for example, c:\repo
. With a local connection, you can click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to your repository.
If you're setting default values for all projects using Project|Default Project Properties, consider leaving JBuilder's default value in this field (unless you will only be using one module for all your work). Then, when you use another project that goes into another module, JBuilder will prompt you smoothly and quickly through the process of setting a module name for the individual project.
Autosave Files Before CVS Operations
If this box is checked, JBuilder automatically saves changed files in the buffers before performing any CVS operation. If this option is not checked and your file has not been saved yet, you will be prompted to save the file before the CVS operation occurs.
If this box is checked, JBuilder displays CVS console messages on the CVS Console tab in the message pane. To expand a message, click the switch beside it or double-click the console icon itself.
Right-click the CVS Console tab to clear CVS console messages or to remove the tab until the next time you invoke CVS.