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Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

An edition of Rational Application Developer


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Features and benefits

 

IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere Software

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

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Common User Interface
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Project management
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Available views: Task list, Navigator, Outline, Links, etc.
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Customizable Perspectives
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Desktop and Help frameworks
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Code Assist
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Local and Team Resource management
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Debugging services
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Productivity
Flexible installation provides access to only the features you need
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Cheat sheets for common development patterns
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Application templates and template library
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How-to and scenario-based tutorials
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Getting started and installation guide
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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
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JSF-based report viewing component for embedding reports into Web applications
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Web Site Designer to visually manage and analyze Web sites
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Integrated visual page designer with round-trip raw edit ability
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JSP™ and servlet wizards
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Struts support
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Templates and samples
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Support for HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CHTML, WML, Struts and visual custom tags
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Page Designer with round-trip raw edit capability for WYSIWYG layout of JSP pages
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Built-in Crystal Report tools for developing visual data reports
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Test and development license of Crystal Enterprise Server for enterprise-wide reporting
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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
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Configurable Java Runtime Environment (JRE™)
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Java Development Kit (JDK™), Version 5 support
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Scrapbook for testing code snippets
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Re-factoring
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Visual code modeling with auto-synch of code and models
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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
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Swing GUI Construction
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SWT GUI Construction
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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
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Support for Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC), Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS 2.0), Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB 2.0), SOAP 1.1 and 1.2, SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ 1.3), UDDI 2.0 and v3, WSDL 1.1, WSIL, J2EE 1.4, and AXIS
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Support for Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM), Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing) and SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)
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Create, validate and detect WS-I compliant Web services
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Web services discovery based on WSIL
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Discover and publish services to the UDDI Business Registry
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Create or transform Web services from existing artifacts, such as Java beans, DADX files and EJB components
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Build artifacts by wrapping in SOAP and describing in WSDL
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WSDL editor
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Develop Web services client application from samples
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Deploy and test Web services into the WebSphere Application Server or Tomcat test environments
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Generate native z-series and COBOL Web services
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Web services Explorer
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Process guidance for developing SOA applications
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XML Development - Comprehensive tools for creating, editing and transforming XML documents and integrating relational data and XML
XML, XML schemas tools
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XML authoring tools - XML editor, DTD editor, XML schema editor
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XML transformation tools: XML-to-XML mapping editor, XSLT generator, XSL trace editor
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Database to XML mapping tools: visual DAD builder for RDB-to-XML mapping, DAD script
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XSL editor
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Xpath wizard
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Database Development - Views, wizards and editors, make it easy to develop and test the database elements of applications
Database Wizards to simplify database creation
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Support for IBM DB2®, Informix, IBM Cloudscape™, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle9i and Sybase
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DB Explorer to browse or import database schemas
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Data view to create and work with database schemas
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SQL query builder and wizard to visually create and execute SQL statements
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Relational Schema Center to map relational database tables to XML
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Object-to-relational mapping (top-down, meet-in-the-middle and bottom-up)
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Many-to-many mapping wizard
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Generate and test Document Access Definition (DAD) file
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Stored Procedure Builder
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SQLJ support
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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
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Visual portal application development and editing of the themes and skins that control their appearance
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Integrated support for JSF and the Struts framework
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Business portlet development using IBM WebSphere Portal Application Integration (SAP, Seibel)
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Portlet templates
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Support for IBM Portlet API and the JSR 168 standard portlet API
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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
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Support for Servlet 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and JSP 1.1, 1.2, 2.0
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Support for EJB™ 1.1, 2.0, 2.1
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Support for Java Message Service (JMS) and EJB Query Language
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Support for JAR, EAR, WAR packaging
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Wizards for creating session beans and entity beans
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Support for bean-managed persistence (BMP) and container-managed persistence (CMP)
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Support for developing EJBs using annotated Java (Xdoclet tag set)
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O/R Mapping (top-down and bottom up)
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Generated EJB Test Client
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Support for building J2EE™ applications with JDK 5, targeting WebSphere Application Server v5.1, v6.0, v6.1
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EJB client JAR support to automate the creation of EJB clients
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EJB snippet support to simplify generation of EJB client access code
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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
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Adaptors for Concurrent Versions System
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Adaptors for Rational ClearCase
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Rational ClearCase LT Server included
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Namespace versioning integration with Rational ClearCase LT
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RUP® Developer Configuration
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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
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UML views of data tables and enhanced diagram support
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UML sequence diagrams of method bodies
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Code review (Static Analysis): Provides 'Quick Fix' suggestions and allows for customization of rules, via rules templates
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Testing and Deployment
Test environment for HTML and JSP files, servlets
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EJB universal test client
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Ant scripting and JUnit testing framework
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TCP/IP Monitor to monitor requests and responses between a browser and an application server
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Automated tools to manage server instances and server configurations, including automated creation and submission of wsadmin scripts
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Test different run-time environments locally or remotely
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TPTP performance profiling and logging
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Enhanced runtime analysis tools: memory leak detection, thread lock detection, user defined probes, code coverage
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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. 6.1.0.9 included for test, includes the runtime required to support the Feature Pack for Web Services.)
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WebSphere Application Server - Express unit test environments: v5.0, v5.1, v6.0
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Tomcat Jakarta
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WebSphere Portal Server unit test environments: v5.1, and v. 6.0 (WebSphere Portal Server v. 6.0included for test)
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