Rational Application Developer

Rational Application Developer

Rational Application Developer with the Java code editor open
Developer(s) Rational Software
Initial release 6.0 [1] 7 January 2005 (2005-01-07)
Written in Java
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux
Available in English International, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean
Type Integrated development environment
License IBM EULA
Website ibm.com/..

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software (RAD) is a commercial Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), made by IBM. It provides tools for visually designing, constructing, testing, analyzing, and deploying many types of applications including Java, Java EE, Web 2.0, hybrid mobile, Portal applications, and Web and REST services.

Overview

Rational Application Developer is an integrated development environment(IDE) product that helps Java and web application developers design, develop, deploy, test and analyze their applications. It contains specialized wizards, editors, and validators for a variety of technologies:

Rational Application Developer includes tools to improve code quality. A Java profiling tool helps to analyze an application's performance, memory usage, and threading problems. A software analysis tool identifies patterns and antipatterns in application code, and compares code to coding standards.[7]

To manage source code, a development team can configure Rational Application Developer to work with a source code repository system. The product ships with connectors to IBM Rational ClearCase for source control and IBM Rational ClearQuest for defect management. It also ships with a Rational Team Concert client that can be used for both source control and defect management.

The workbench includes tools for deploying an application to a local or remote server. It contains test environments for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal. It also supports Apache Tomcat. Using these tools, a software developer can test their application locally before publishing it to a production server.[8] Cloud computing capability is provided for the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise[9] and the IBM Workload Deployer.[10]

History

In 2001, IBM donated the Eclipse Platform into Open Source to enable community-driven development of a Java workbench and tools.[11] Eclipse was based on standards like J2EE and was designed with a plug-in based framework so that vendors could easily extend the features of the workbench.

Also in 2001, IBM replaced the VisualAge for Java and WebSphere Studio products with WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD), version 4.0. WSAD extended the Eclipse platform and included tools to develop Web services and XML applications, and for performance profiling.

In 2002, IBM released version 5.0 of WSAD adding a Java Visual Editor, an XSL debugger, and test and analysis tools. Applications could be deployed to WebSphere Application Server version 5.0. New supported programming standards included J2EE 1.3.

In 2003, IBM completed the purchase of Rational Software[12] and a year later, replaced WSAD with Rational Application Developer version 6.0. This release supported WebSphere Application Server version 6.0 and updated programming standards such as J2EE 1.4. Also included were tools for visual portlet and portal development.

In 2006, IBM donated the Web Tools Platform (WTP) to Eclipse. WTP included tools for developing Web and Java EE applications. That year also saw release of Rational Application Developer version 7.0, with new features supporting Java Server Faces, and tools for XSD and WSDL visualization and transforms. In this release, Rational Application Developer could be installed in a single workbench with other Rational tools.

In 2008, IBM released Rational Application Developer version 7.5. This release supported WebSphere Application Server version 7.0 as well as the new Java EE 5 programming standard. This release included tools for Service Component Architecture (SCA), a component-based programming model, and tools for communication enabled applications.

In 2010, IBM released Rational Application Developer version 8.0. This release supported WebSphere Application Server version 8.0 as well as the new Java EE 6 programming standard. This release included tools supporting the OSGi applications framework and cloud computing. The cloud computing support included the ability to instantiate and manage virtual machines running application servers and also inclusion of virtual machine appliances for Rational Application Developer in the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise image catalog.

In 2013, IBM released Rational Application Developer version 9.0.[13] This release supported the latest version of Liberty application server profile, and made improvements to tools for developing multi-tier mobile and mobile web applications.

The latest version of Rational Application Developer is version 9.5,[14] which was released in September 2015.

Eclipse base

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IBM Software support lifecycle for Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software 6.0.x". 01.ibm.com. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  2. ↑ "Developing enterprise applications".
  3. ↑ "Developing Web services".
  4. ↑ "Developing Service Component Architecture (SCA) applications".
  5. ↑ "Developing XML applications".
  6. ↑ "Developing Web applications".
  7. ↑ "Code quality tools in Rational Application Developer".
  8. ↑ "Deploying applications".
  9. ↑ "IBM SmartCloud Enterprise".
  10. ↑ "IBM Workload Deployer".
  11. ↑ "About the Eclipse Foundation". Eclipse.org. 2004-02-02. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  12. ↑ List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM, List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM
  13. ↑ http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS213-211/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en
  14. ↑ http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS215-380&appname=USN
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