Rational Professional Bundle

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The IBM Rational® Professional Bundle features Eclipse-based desktop tools.

It includes all the Eclipse-based desktop tools your enterprise needs to design, construct and test J2EE™/Portal/SOA applications with change management and process guidance.

• Comes with just one license and one support contract to manage.
• Supports geographically distributed teams through a flexible, Floating License model. Smaller or centralized teams can take advantage of the Authorized User license model.
• Includes tools built on Eclipse 3.2 to extend your Eclipse development with advanced features, commercial product support and a flexible, extensible, customizable development environment.
• Provides exceptional flexibility for the individual practitioner to install and use the tools they need to do their job.
• Enables you to drive application development that is optimized for WebSphere® software and other J2EE-technology platforms.
• The bundle is an integral part of the IBM Software Delivery Platform™, a complete, open, modular, integrated, and proven solution that helps increase the productivity of software development teams.
• Test drive the products in the IBM Rational Professional Bundle at ibm.com/developerWorks/downloads.

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Product framework

Included components IBM Rational Software Modeler A customizable, UML 2.0-based visual modeling and design tool for documenting and communicating processes, flows and designs IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software Design, develop, analyze, test, profile and deploy Web, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE™ and portal applications IBM Rational Software Architect Leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services IBM Rational Functional Tester An advanced, automated functional and regression tool for testing Java, Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET, and Web-based applications IBM Rational Manual Tester A manual test authoring and execution tool for improving the speed, breadth, and reliability of manual testing efforts IBM Rational Performance Tester Multi-user performance testing tool for validating Web application scalability pre-deployment IBM Rational ClearCase LT Version control, automated workspace configuration, and parallel development support of development assets IBM Rational Unified Process A subset of Rational Unified Process, designed for J2 and software architects View all components

Additional products, services and solutions

Products Rational Team Unifying Platform Equips teams with the infrastructure tools, processes, and integrations they need to work together more effectively View all additional offerings