You have seen the Rational Team Server basic and administrative setup. Now, you will see the Rational Team Concert client features and how to set it up. Rational Team Concert 2.0.2's client is based on Eclipse 3.4.2 and allows you to do variety of tasks:

In the Enterprise installation, the client is installed as one of the components and is supplied with its own JDK to run out of the box. You can start the Rational Team Concert client from <root>\jazz\client\eclipse\eclipse.exe:

Rational Team Concert client asks for the location of the workspace. This is the workspace location where any new project is created and/or imported, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once the workspace is selected, Rational Team Concert's client is started and the Welcome screen appears, as follows:

After you minimize the Welcome screen, the "work items" perspective is opened. At this time the work items perspective contains the empty views and editors:

By now, you may be wondering how you would start exploring Rational Team Concert. On the client's Welcome screen, you may have noticed the JUnit Project example. Setting up the JUnit Project would give you an overview of the several features in Rational Team Concert's client and gives you a platform to experiment.

In Rational Team Concert version 2.0.0.2, the JUnit Project example runs only when you set up Rational Team Server to run on Tomcat. Installing this example application creates user entries and updates the repository, which can be done only within the context of the Tomcat environment. Therefore, we cannot simply import this project into our repository as we use the WebSphere for the application server.

In the next section, we will see how to import the JUnit Project example into the Rational Team Concert client and use it to explore different features.