Codebeamer DOORS Bridge
Codebeamer DOORS Bridge is a Java application, running as a Web Service in an Apache Tomcat® container, that provides online web access to an IBM® Rational® DOORS® installation on the same server.
DOORS Bridge was developed and tested against IBM® Rational® DOORS® 9.6.
Prerequisites
The following steps are required prior to installing Codebeamer DOORS Bridge on a 64-bit Windows 8.1 or newer system, supported by IBM® Rational® DOORS®.
1. Download and Install a 64-bit Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) or a full Java Development Kit (JDK), version [1.]8.
◦ The location of the installed JRE (e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_341) must be made available in an environment variable called JRE_HOME.
◦ If you installed a full JDK, then the location of the JDK must be made available in an environment variable called JAVA_HOME, e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_341.
2. Install an IBM® Rational® DOORS® client, version 9.6 or later. We recommend DOORS 9.7.2.1 or newer.
◦ DOORS Bridge in combination with DOORS versions older than 9.6 does not work, due to missing DXL functions.
◦ Only the IBM® Rational® DOORS® client must be installed on the same server, where Codebeamer DOORS Bridge is going to be installed.
◦ The IBM® Rational® DOORS® Database Server and the IBM® Rational® License Key Server can be located anywhere on the network.
3. If OLE objects, are embedded in rich text attributes of objects to export via Codebeamer DOORS Bridge, then all applications associated with OLE objects to export must also be installed on the same machine where Codebeamer DOORS Bridge is going to be installed.
◦ E.g. Adobe Acrobat for PDF, Microsoft Office for MS Word and Excel, etc.
◦ If there is no associated application installed for a specific OLE object, the IBM® Rational® DOORS® client
▪ will not be able to export the unregistered OLE objectat all, or
▪ will only export a preview picture (in some cases the OLE preview picture may be totally blank).
4. If you intend to export huge DOORS® modules with 10.000s of objects and hundreds/thousands of embedded OLE objects, then the server, where DOORS Bridge and the DOORS® client are installed, should have at least
◦ 8 cores
◦ 8 GB of available memory
◦ 256 GB of free disk space in the volumes where BRIDGE.tempDir and DOORS.localdata resides (see below).
Download and Installation
 | Codebeamer Doors Bridge in a standalone Web application running on Microsoft Windows. Please contact to PTC Technical Support for more information about Licensing and Download instructions. |