Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

Helps Java™ developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE™, Portal, Web/Web 2.0, Web services and SOA applications.

• New! Version 7.5.4 available September 25, 2009
• New! Support for Communication Enabled widgets and SIP 1.1 to help you build communication enabled applications.
• New! Support for Service Component Architecture tooling and visual development!
• New! Java EE 5 with JPA and EJB 3.0 support for even simpler development of enterprise applications.
• New! Web 2.0 development features for visual development of responsive Rich Internet Applications with AJAX and dojo.
• Increases productivity and shortens the development and test cycles as it extends the Eclipse 3.4 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.
• Shortens the technology learning curve through visual design, with auto-synchronized code modeling, quickfixes, tutorials and code samples.
• Assists agile collaborative development of applications as it works with project and source management solutions.
• Uses robust capabilities to create SOA applications, including the ability to automatically create necessary SOA components such as WSDL files.
• Applies visual portal development techniques to speed development.
• Operating systems supported: Linux, Windows

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