Marketing description

Award-winning IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software is a comprehensive integrated development environment, with full support for the J2EE programming model including Web, Java, Web services and EJB development, that accelerates application development. With integrated Portal development, UML visual editing, code analysis, and automated test and deployment tools, Application Developer includes everything developers need to be productive and to help ensure their code is well designed, scaleable and ready for production. Built-in version control and team tools enable developers working on complex projects or within large teams to coordinate versioning and to protect team assets.

Key selling points

• 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
• 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