Rational Application Developer V7 Programming Guide

IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software V7.0 (for short, Rational Application Developer) is the full function Eclipse 3.2 based development platform for developing Java™ 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE™ ) and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE™ ) applications with a focus on applications to be deployed to IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal. Rational Application Developer provides integrated development tools for all development roles, including Web developers, Java developers, business analysts, architects, and enterprise programmers.

Rational Application Developer is part of the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP), which contains products in four life cycle categories:

• Architecture management, which includes integrated development environments (Application Developer is here)
  
• Change and release management
  
• Process and portfolio management
  
• Quality management

This IBM Redbooks® publication is a programming guide that highlights the features and tooling included with Rational Application Developer V7.0. Many of the chapters provide working examples that demonstrate how to use the tooling to develop applications, as well as achieve the benefits of visual and rapid application development. This publication is an update of Rational Application Developer V6 Programming Guide, SG24-6449.

This book consists of six parts:

• Introduction to Rational Application Developer
  
• Develop applications
  
• Test and debug applications
  
• Deploy and profile applications
  
• Team development
  
• Appendixes

About the Authors
Ueli Wahli is a Consultant IT Specialist at the IBM International Technical Support Organization in San Jose, California. Before joining the ITSO over 20 years ago, Ueli worked in technical support at IBM Switzerland. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere and Rational application development products. In his ITSO career, Ueli has produced more than 40 IBM Redbooks. Ueli holds a degree in Mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Henry Cui is a Software Developer working at the IBM Toronto lab. Henry has been in the IBM Rational Application Developer service and support team for four years. He has helped many customers resolve design, development, and migration issues with J2EE development. Henry was a member of the WebFacing Eclipse project sponsored by the IBM Extreme Blue program at Almaden Research Center. Before joining IBM, Henry worked as a Software Developer in the COGNICASE/CGI Corporation to develop J2EE applications for big financial institutions. Henry is a frequent contributor of developerWorks articles and Rational Application Developer technotes. Henry holds a degree in Computer Science from York University.