Rational Ada Developer Enterprise Edition

An advanced integrated development environment for Ada-based applications.

IBM® Rational® Ada Developer Enterprise Edition is an advanced integrated development environment for Ada and mixed Ada/C/C++ development. Powered by IBM Rational Apex, it provides a single, scalable environment that integrates design, implementation, testing and configuration management for even the largest application development projects. Rational Ada Developer Enterprise Edition includes IBM Rational TestMate® and IBM Rational Rose® and supports the Sun SPARC Solaris, Intel® i386 Solaris and Linux operating systems.

Rational Ada Developer Enterprise Edition is designed with the best practices of large-scale modern software engineering.

Integrated development environment—supports the full development lifecycle and includes visual modeling capabilities with Rational Rose for Ada and C++.
Architecture-based design—allows you to create larger subsystems for developing and managing large-scale applications.
Integrated host platform testing—makes frequent testing easier, which improves agility and time to market.
Incremental compilation and fast-path recording—helps dramatically reduce system build times.
Integrated configuration management—facilitates and controls parallel development.

Integrated development environment

The integrated toolset for design, development, testing, configuration and task management provides a productive development environment.
IBM Rational Rose software is included for Ada and C++ visual modeling.
Iterative development tools enable smaller increments of change to be built, tested and deployed, providing more control over the development process.

Architecture-based design

Architectural control features give you the ability to create larger software structures, supporting large-scale software reuse.
The architecture manages dependencies between source files at a higher level, which helps maintain the integrity of the application design throughout the software lifecycle.

Integrated host platform testing

Includes Rational TestMate for integrated host platform testing for Ada and C/C++.
Provides iterative testing tools for more frequent testing, resulting in software problems being found and corrected sooner and more cost-effectively.
Includes support for structural testing with Rational TestMate and Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC).

Incremental compilation and fast-path recording

Provides the ability to analyze actual code changes, which reduces the time required to rebuild an application.
Improves compilation and build times for large systems and improves generation of optimal code.

Integrated configuration management

Manages parallel development in a way that is more transparent to developers and less intrusive to work activities.
Uses IBM Rational Summit CM for configuration management, which offers advanced tools for controlling versions and configurations.
Integrates with IBM Rational ClearCase® for additional configuration management support.