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Don't Wait! Try the Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.5 Open Beta Code Today
Download the Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.5 open beta code and start developing applications for the JEE5 standard which features EJB3.0, JPA, JSF 1.2, JSP 2.1 and Servlet 2.5 standards. When you use this beta you will see how you can increase developer productivity for already existing applications with improved support for refactoring, as well as adding new features to existing applications. In addition, the beta provides tooling for JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft to improve the developer productivity with these enterprise systems. 
January 15, 2008  

 Product Information

Rational Application Developer for WebSphere software extends Eclipse with visual construction development tools that improve Java™ developers productivity and shortens development and test lifecycle by helping them rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE™, Portal, Web, Web services and SOA applications.

Version 7.5 expands IBM’s industry leading application development platform focusing on the following themes and capabilities:

  • Increasing developer productivity:  Achieve greater individual and team productivity with increased support for iterative development for JEE5 applications that takes advantage of the annotation based programming model, with enhanced support for creation, validation, refactoring, and deletion of artifacts.

  • Enterprise Information System (EIS) Adapters:  Tooling for JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft to improve the developer productivity with these enterprise systems.  The Discovery Wizard will support generic, EMD and J2C, including supporting the new metadata import/export framework.  The adapters will also have enterprise metadata discovery componentized for consumption by a rich client.

  • Enabling Web 2.0 application development:  Enabling server-side development with key technologies including web remoting, JSON, feed syndication and publish/subscribe.  Special focus on supporting RPC Adapter, IBM's web remoting technology, to allow Ajax clients to get access to server-side POJOs.  WebSphere Web 2.0 Feature Pack is supported for web project setup as well as deployment to WebSphere Application Server.

  • Delivering New & Emerging Programming models & Applications:  Enhanced capabilities to deliver modern applications in emerging programming models using tools that help create EJB 3.0, JPA, Web Services with JAX-WS 2.0/JAX-B 2.0 and reliable secure profile applications.  Additional support for the new JSF 1.2, JSP 2.1 and Servlet 2.5 standards is provided.

  • Latest Standards support:  Includes latest standards, such as JEE5, RSP 1.0, WS-Policy Assertions for Web Services, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Addressing, MTOM, SOAP 1.2, WS-Secure Conversation and SIP (JSR 289).

Some of these features may not be available at the start of the Beta program, and IBM may make improvements and/or changes at any time.



 Hardware / Software Requirements
  • Participants must be deploying applications to Windows XP SP2, and using it to create their applications
  • Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz or higher recommended
  • Display minimum requirements: 1024 x 768
  • 1GB RAM minimum; 2GB RAM works well
  • Disk space requirements: 3.5GB minimum for installing Rational Application Developer and additional disk space for development resources (minimum disk space can be reduced if optional features and run times are not installed)
  • If you would like to deploy an application created with RAD to an Enterprise Information System (JD Edwards, Oracle, SAP, Siebel or PeopleSoft) then that system must be already installed and configured.


 Download

There are two ways to download and install the beta:

May we remind you that this is beta code and must not be used for any productive business purpose.  Please be aware that this code has a limited license which will expire before Rational Application Developer v7.5 becomes generally available (GA).

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