Introduction to managing editions

You have just reached a milestone in the development of your program, and you are ready to start coding some new features. Maybe you just want to explore a different (perhaps more efficient) implementation of a method that already works, but you are not sure if changes or additions will introduce new problems. This is a good time to create a versioned edition of your code.

With VisualAge for Java, you can manage multiple editions of program elements. You have already seen some of the concepts for managing editions. This section briefly reviews these concepts and shows you how to use the edition management features of VisualAge for Java.

In this section, you will learn about:

[Enterprise Edition only] Editions are managed by a team of developers. Packages and projects can only be versioned by their owners; classes can only be versioned by their developers. Versioning an edition is often followed by releasing. For information on the team development environment, see the Getting Started document for VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition.