Developers are typically given clear instructions about the required modifications from the solution architects and business analysts. For example, a new field should be added to the Contact business component and the Contact Form Applet should expose the new field as a new textbox control.
When implementing the preceding example and during all other development cycles, the developer has to adhere to a process that can be depicted as follows:
In the following sections, we will refer to the preceding example while we discuss each of the process steps in detail.
When a developer, connected to the local database in Siebel Tools, wants to establish write access to an object, she or he has to use the Check Out functionality of Siebel Tools. There are two choices: Checking out single object definitions or entire projects.
Since Siebel CRM version 8.0, the Siebel Repository is preconfigured to support single object locking. In technical terms, the majority of projects...
