IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software extends Eclipse with visual construction development.
Helps Java developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE, Portal, Web, Web services and SOA applications.

• Increases productivity and shortens the development and test cycles as it extends the Eclipse 3.2 environment.
• Features a flexible installation process designed to provide developers with only the functions they need.
• Is integrated and optimized for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal Server products and includes test environments for these products.
• Accelerates J2EE, portal, Web Services and SOA application development.
• Shortens the Java learning curve through visual design, with auto-synchronized code modeling.
• Uses robust capabilities to create SOA applications, including the ability to automatically create necessary SOA components such as WSDL and WSIL files.
• Applies visual portal development techniques to speed development.
• Allows you to collaborate and share assets across the team using built-in Rational ClearCase LT version control; Integrate with other facets of the lifecycle—including requirements, change management and process guidance.
• Simplifies Web page development/management.
• Operating systems supported: Linux, Windows

Eclipse 3.2 Integration - Open source environment that brings integration and extensibility to the development environment

• Extends Eclipse 3.2 with visual development tools, JSF, and IBM WebSphere support
• Common User Interface
• Project management
• Available views: Task list, Navigator, Outline, Links, etc.
• Customizable Perspectives
• Desktop and Help frameworks
• Code Assist
• Local and Team Resource management
• Debugging services

Productivity

• Flexible installation provides access to only the features you need
• Cheat sheets for common development patterns
• Application templates and template library
• How-to and scenario-based tutorials
• Getting started and installation guide

Web Development - RAD tools and wizards bring all aspects of Web development into a common interface and enable developers with diverse technical backgrounds, and even those unfamiliar with Java, to quickly build rich, data-driven applications

• JavaServer Faces support: JSF reference implementation, JSF components and visual tools
• JSF-based report viewing component for embedding reports into Web applications
• Web Site Designer to visually manage and analyze Web sites
• Integrated visual page designer with round-trip raw edit ability
• JSP and servlet wizards
• Struts support
• Templates and samples
• Support for HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CHTML, WML, Struts and visual custom tags
• Page Designer with round-trip raw edit capability for WYSIWYG layout of JSP pages
• Active script debugging for JavaScript and Visual Basic® Script
• Built-in Crystal Report tools for developing visual data reports
• Test and development license of Crystal Enterprise Server for enterprise-wide reporting

Java Development - Build rich Java applications using a variety of visual editors, wizards and code generation, merging and re-factoring tools

• Integrated Java Development Environment
• Configurable Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
• Java Development Kit (JDK), Version 5 support
• Scrapbook for testing code snippets
• Re-factoring
• Visual code modeling with auto-synch of code and models

Java Visual Editor - Visual Editor for Java with event handling to build Java technology application GUIs with AWT, Swing, and SWT components; includes Javadoc

• JSF Component Layout
• Swing GUI Construction
• SWT GUI Construction

Web Services Development - Comprehensive Web services and SOA development tools simplify and automate the process of building WS-I compliant, interoperable Web services applications

• Web services wizards to accelerate Web services development
• Support for UDDI 2.0 and v3, SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1, WSIL, J2EE 1.4, and AXIS
• Create, validate and detect WS-I compliant Web services
• Web services discovery based on WSIL
• Discover and publish services to the UDDI Business Registry
• Create or transform Web services from existing artifacts, such as Java beans, DADX files and EJB components
• Build artifacts by wrapping in SOAP and describing in WSDL
• WSDL editor
• Develop Web services client application from samples
• Deploy and test Web services into the WebSphere Application Server or Tomcat test environments
• Generate native z-series and COBOL Web services
• Web services Explorer
• Process guidance for developing SOA applications

XML Development - Comprehensive tools for creating, editing and transforming XML documents and integrating relational data and XML

• XML, XML schemas tools
• XML authoring tools - XML editor, DTD editor, XML schema editor
• XML transformation tools: XML-to-XML mapping editor, XSLT generator, XSL trace editor
• Database to XML mapping tools: visual DAD builder for RDB-to-XML mapping, DAD script
• XSL editor
• Xpath wizard

Database Development - Views, wizards and editors, make it easy to develop and test the database elements of applications

• Database Wizards to simplify database creation
• Support for IBM DB2, Informix, IBM Cloudscape, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle9i and Sybase
• DB Explorer to browse or import database schemas
• Data view to create and work with database schemas
• SQL query builder and wizard to visually create and execute SQL statements
• Relational Schema Center to map relational database tables to XML
• Object-to-relational mapping (top-down, meet-in-the-middle and bottom-up)
• Many-to-many mapping wizard
• Generate and test Document Access Definition (DAD) file
• Stored Procedure Builder
• SQLJ support

Portal development - Visual portal development tools and a WebSphere Portal unit test environment support the development and testing of individual portlets and entire portal applications

• Visual portlet development and WebSphere Portal unit test environment
• Visual portal application development and editing of the themes and skins that control their appearance
• Integrated support for JSF and the Struts framework
• Business portlet development using IBM WebSphere Portal Application Integration (SAP, Seibel)
• Portlet templates
• Support for IBM Portlet API and the JSR 168 standard portlet API

J2EE Development - Comprehensive support for the full J2EE programming model accelerates EJB component development and testing

• Concurrent support for J2EE 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 specifications
• Support for Servlet 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and JSP 1.1, 1.2, 2.0
• Support for EJB™ 1.1, 2.0, 2.1
• Support for Java Message Service (JMS) and EJB Query Language
• Support for JAR, EAR, WAR packaging
• Wizards for creating session beans and entity beans
• Support for bean-managed persistence (BMP) and container-managed persistence (CMP)
• Support for developing EJBs using annotated Java (Xdoclet tag set)
• O/R Mapping (top-down and bottom up)
• Generated EJB Test Client
• Support for building J2EE applications with JDK 5, targeting WebSphere Application Server v5.1, v6.0, v6.1
• EJB client JAR support to automate the creation of EJB clients
• EJB snippet support to simplify generation of EJB client access code

Team Development - Integration with IBM Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest enables a wide range of change management operations to be performed directly from within your development environment, provides an integrated view of projects and increases both collaboration and team productivity

• Pluggable version control repositories
• Adaptors for Concurrent Versions System
• Adaptors for Rational ClearCase
• Rational ClearCase LT Server included
• Namespace versioning integration with Rational ClearCase LT
• RUP Developer Configuration

Architectural Specification. UML Visual Editor - UML Visual Editor for Java and EJB to visualize and edit Java and J2EE components

• UML class diagram editor for Java classes and interfaces and EJBs
• UML views of data tables and enhanced diagram support
• UML sequence diagrams of method bodies
• Code review (Static Analysis): Provides 'Quick Fix' suggestions and allows for customization of rules, via rules templates

Testing and Deployment

• Test environment for HTML and JSP files, servlets
• EJB universal test client
• Ant scripting and JUnit testing framework
• TCP/IP Monitor to monitor requests and responses between a browser and an application server
• Automated tools to manage server instances and server configurations, including automated creation and submission of wsadmin scripts
• Test different run-time environments locally or remotely
• TPTP performance profiling and logging
• Enhanced runtime analysis tools: memory leak detection, thread lock detection, user defined probes, code coverage

Server Support - Integrated unit test environment supports both local and remote testing to streamline application testing and increase code quality

• WebSphere Application Server unit test environments: v5, v5.1, v6.0, v.6.1 (WebSphere Application Server v. 6.1 included for test)
• WebSphere Application Server - Express unit test environments: v5.0, v5.1, v6.0
• Tomcat Jakarta
• WebSphere Portal Server unit test environments: v5.1, and v. 6.0 (WebSphere Portal Server v. 6.0included for test)