IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software - Summary

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Summary

IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software by IBM Rational Software

Accelerates J2EE and Portal development and improves code quality. IBM® Rational® Application Developer extends Eclipse with rapid development. It helps Java developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE, Portal, Web, Web services and SOA applications. IBM Rational Application Developer is integrated and optimized for IBM WebSphere® Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal Server products and includes test environments for these products. It uses robust capabilities to create SOA applications, including the ability to automatically create necessary SOA components such as WSDL and WSIL files.

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)

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Publisher PartNumbers: D54N4LL D54N5LL D54NBLL D54NCLL D54SDLL D54SELL E01MJLL E01MKLL

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Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x, SUSE Linux 9.x

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Application

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