Rational Business Developer

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A rapid development workbench for delivering cross-platform Web and service-oriented applications.

IBM Rational Business Developer V7.1,which replaces Rational Business Developer Extension, includes:

• Several key enhancements and delivers a powerful workbench for EGL development, an innovative end-to-end rapid development.
• Higher development productivity through a powerful, platform-neutral, business-oriented specification and a wealth of rapid development tools and wizards.
• Rapid and simplified SOA support. EGL includes the notion of Service, and Rational Business Developer delivers the tools for quickly defining, testing and deploying the Service to all supported platforms, including automated Services generation from models.
• Seamless and rapid end-to-end Web application development, testing and deployment; including the ability to deploy applications and services to a broad variety of platforms, including J2EE™ application servers as well as traditional mainframe transactional environments such as System z’s CICS and IMS or System i’s i5OS.
• Ease of learning. Developers with general programming skills can learn EGL and become producing with RBD typically in a matter of weeks.
• Legacy extension and modernization. EGL built-in interoperability with COBOL, RPG, PL/I and other existing program is ideal for rapid reuse of existing investments into new Services or Web systems. Also provides migration path for older 4GLs like Informix and VisualAge Generator.
• Flexibility and responsiveness. The platform-neutral development approach eliminates skills silos, creating a unified pool of business-oriented developers that can be freely shifted across projects according to business demands.
• Rational Migration Extension for Natural and RPG to assist System z and IBM i customers who have legacy Natural/ADABAS and RPG applications to migrate to EGL via an automated process.

Analyst report
EGL vs. .Net - productivity study (PDF, 601KB)

White paper
Migrating your Natural applications with IBM Rational software

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