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Rational Showcase:
Your source for free Rational Downloads, Tutorials, Webcasts, Articles, and Much More!
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(12-08-08)
eBook: Working with others on a software development project can either be rewarding or a nightmare. Working with the right tools and processes can insure you won't wake up in the middle of the night screaming. This ebook discusses how collaboration in software development is evolving and looks at the latest tools to simplify the software development process.
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(12-17-08)
Application lifecycle management (ALM) coordinates the lifecycle activities of software development, including requirements, modeling, development, building and testing. Collaborative ALM solutions provide a next-generation approach to helping organizations achieve greater value from their software investments. In this Buyers guide, we explore key criteria to consider as you consider creating a request for proposal RFP for a collaborative ALM solution. It discusses key capabilities of an effective solution and provides checklists you can use when evaluating vendors and their products. The guide also shows you how solutions based on IBM Jazz technology can help you achieve your goals.
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(07-23-08)
Download the IBM Rational Requirements Composer V7.1 open beta code and enhance your requirements elicitation and definition capabilities with this easy-to-use visualization and collaboration toolset. Build consensus with stakeholders and teams by visualizing results before committing resources. Enable improved speed, quality, and alignment across the IT Lifecycle to help avoid costly requirements failures and project rework.
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(07-23-08)
Participate in the open beta program for IBM Rational Quality Manager, a collaborative, web-based quality management solution for test planning, workflow control, and tracking and metrics reporting. Rational Quality Manager enables you to quantify how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.
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(07-23-08)
Discover how you can deliver Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based applications with speed and quality. This complimentary eKit provides a collection of materials such as articles, podcasts, webcasts, and demos to help you understand how to use IBM Rational software to model, code and test SIP-based applications.
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(06-19-08)
Get free training in the IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management certification training e-kit. As a member of the Project Management Institutes (PMI's) corporate council, IBM has more than 12,000 PMI-certified project managers and has been honored for its educational programs. Now, you can learn more about the difference that IBM's project management curriculum makes with six free courses based on IBM's best-practices processes and tools.
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(05-15-08)
The HATS toolkit provides a set of plug-ins for the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform to help you easily extend your legacy applications. HATS makes your 3270 and 5250 applications available as HTML through the most popular Web browsers, while converting your host screens to a Web look and feel and it also enables you to develop new Web, portal, and rich-client applications. Download a free trial of the Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) Toolkit today.
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(05-15-08)
Rational Business Developer offers rapid and simplified development of business applications and services through Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) tools, generating Java or mainframe solutions while shielding developers from technical complexities.
Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Business Developer V7.1 today.
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(03-25-08)
The IBM Enterprise Modernization sandbox for the IBM i environment (the IBM Power Systems platform, including IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, and System i) is designed to help you quickly evaluate our latest products for modernizing and deploying core IBM i applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment that lets you evaluate multiple products without downloading and installing them.
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(05-15-08)
Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Software Analyzer Developer Edition V7.0 to identify bug defects earlier in the software development cycle. Rational Software Analyzer is an extensible software development solution that reduces the expense of bug-fixes by enabling static analysis code reviews and bug identification very early in the development cycle.
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(04-18-08)
With IBM Rational Systems Development Solution, you can deliver products faster with higher quality. Within this kit, Read the “Model Driven Systems Development” white paper to see how to improve product quality and communication. Then check out the rest of the e-Kit to learn more about important topics that can affect the success of any software project through customer examples, tutorials, informative Webcasts, and best practices for designing, building and managing systems. Read more.
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(04-17-08)
Analysts, architects, and developers who have existing COBOL or PL/I skills and want to extend those skills to deploy new workloads on the mainframe can use the IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z to find hands-on walkthroughs of common real world scenarios. Leverage existing scenarios to rapidly design, create, assemble, test, and deploy high-quality Web, Web services, portal, and SOA applications for IBM CICS, IBM IMS, and IBM WebSphere Application Server.
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(03-24-08)
Learn from the best! Find out how developers use Rational ClearCase to be more flexible, innovative and deliver higher quality code in the Rational ClearCase Power Users eKit. This complimentary eKit provides a collection of materials, like articles, whitepapers, and demos that can help you become a power user of Rational ClearCase.
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(03-20-08)
Portfolio management is about effectively managing portfolio value by aligning portfolio investments with business goals. This complimentary e-kit provides a collection of materials that can help you understand how IBM Rational enables and automates best practices for improved governance and clear visibility into portfolio and project performance across the entire IT project lifecycle.
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(03-25-08)
IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions help organizations evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies--reducing the burden of maintenance and freeing up resources to develop new business requirements and capabilities. With the IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z you can evaluate IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions focused on five key areas: Assets, Architectures, Skills, Processes and Infrastructures, and Investment. Each solution is based upon real customer experiences and offers a proven path to get you started with your modernization projects.
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(03-24-08)
Discover how IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition can help you detect vulnerabilities in your Web applications in the Web Application Security eKit. IBM Rational AppScan is a leading suite of automated Web application security solutions that scan and test for common Web application vulnerabilities. The new Web Application Security eKit provides you with valuable resources, including whitepapers, demos, and additional information on the benefits of testing your Web applications.
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(03-24-08)
Secure your Web applications with IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition V7.7, previously known as Watchfire AppScan. This Web application security testing tool automates vulnerability assessments and scans and tests for common Web application vulnerabilities. Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial of IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition V7.7.
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(01-26-08)
Rational Build Forge Express Edition is an automation framework that packages the latest enterprise-grade technologies into a reliable, flexible and robust configuration designed and priced specifically for small to midsize businesses. The new Rational Build Forge Express eKit provides you with valuable resources including a case study, podcast, demo, and articles to help you increase staff productivity, compress development cycles and deliver better software, fast.
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(01-24-08)
Learn how to do more with your reusable assets with the free Rational Asset Manager eKit, which includes demos on how Rational Asset Manager tracks and audits your assets in order to utilize them for reuse. Plus youll find whitepapers and a Web cast that discuss the challenges of a Service Oriented Architecture and how Rational Asset Manager can provide quick and effective solutions.
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(01-15-08)
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.
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(10-10-07)
The IBM SOA Sandbox is an online learning environment designed to help enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers increase SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience. The IBM SOA Sandbox includes five SOA entry points: people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity. Each entry point provides a predefined SOA solution that you can quickly implement based on real-world customer experience and IBM best practices. Visit IBM developerWorks to try the IBM SOA Sandbox today!
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(12-04-07)
Discover how Rational tools and best practices for testing can make your job easier. The new Rational Testing eKits provide you with valuable resources--including demos, Webcasts, tutorials, and articles--that help you address your specific testing needs across the software lifecycle. Five new eKits are available covering the topics of Requirements and Test Management, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Code Quality and Embedded Systems, and SOA and Web Services Testing. »
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(10-25-07)
Learn how you can extend modern application lifecycle management to IBM System z through the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP). This eKit includes podcasts, Webcasts, tutorials, white and red papers, demos, and articles designed to help ease the challenges of modernizing your enterprise. This complimentary kit for mainframe developers is a practical, how-to guide for making the most of an existing development environment, including the skills and infrastructure already in place at an established enterprise.
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(11-16-07)
You can now evaluate IBM Rational Asset Manager online without installing or configuring it on your own system! Rational Asset Manager helps create, modify, govern, find, and reuse any type of development assets, including SOA and systems development assets. Rational Asset Manager helps you reduce software development costs and improve quality by facilitating the reuse of all types of software development-related assets. Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.
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(11-16-07)
Get a free trial download of the latest version of IBM Rational Functional Tester V7.0.1. Rational Functional Tester is an automated functional and regression testing solution for QA teams concerned with the quality of their Java, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and Web-based applications.
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(11-06-07)
Better testing starts with having the latest and smartest tools in the palm of your hand, which is why we put together an eKit full of information specifically for Siebel and SAP applications testing. With demos, Webcasts, articles and more, the eKit shows how to simplify and streamline test creation through automation, as well as how to help maximize system performance, scalability and functionality.
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(10-31-07)
Put best practices to work with IBM Rational Method Composer.
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(10-30-07)
See the value that IBM Rational Method Composer, including RUP, can provide your organization and projects—register today.
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(09-12-07)
IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality is a functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less Web services. IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA Quality is a load and performance testing and problem analysis tool that extends performance and scalability testing to SOA applications.
These new tools allow you to perform:
Script-less automated functional testing of Web services
Functional verification testing of Web services
Interoperability testing of Web services
Load testing of Web services
System Resources and SOA monitoring
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(04-18-08)
As systems increase in complexity, communication between systems and software teams becomes more and more difficult. With systems teams under so much pressure to develop products faster, reduce production costs, and react to changing business needs quickly, communication and collaboration seem to get lost. Now, there's a way to improve product quality and communication.
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(04-19-07)
Visit developerWorks and try the new WebSphere® Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) that gives you all the tools you need to easily extend your legacy applications to business partners, customers, and employees. HATS makes your 3270 and 5250 applications available as HTML through the most popular Web browsers, while converting your host screens to a Web look and feel. The HATS Toolkit is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse-based, IBM Rational® Software Delivery Platform.
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(04-19-07)
You can now evaluate IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0 without installing it on your own system! Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0 is an integrated development environment that can help you quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile and deploy high-quality Web, service-oriented architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE, and portal applications. Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.
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(10-31-07)
Download the updated evaluation tool for IBM Rational Method Composer 7.1.
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(03-05-07)
One-stop shopping. Easy access to IBM software that answers your IT challenges. Find solutions for simpler software development, collaboration and more—all in the latest edition of the catalog. Register to download a PDF copy or sign up to receive a printed copy in just a few weeks.
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(12-08-06)
IBM Rational Data Architect is an enterprise data modeling and integration design tool designed to help data architects design relational and federated databases, understand data assets and their relationships and streamline database projects.
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(12-08-06)
IBM Rational Software Modeler is a Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0-based visual modeling and design tool for architects, systems analysts, and designers who are responsible for specifying and maintaining system or software models and designs.
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(12-08-06)
IBM Rational Systems Developer is a design and development tool that takes advantage of the full power of Eclipse and includes plug-ins that enable system architects to model complex systems.
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(12-08-06)
IBM Rational Test RealTime is a cross-platform solution for component testing and runtime analysis. It's designed specifically for those who write code for embedded, real-time, and other types of cross-platform software products.
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(12-08-06)
IBM Rational Rose Technical Developer, formerly Rational Rose RealTime, is a robust Model-Driven Development (MDD) solution expressly created to meet the challenges of complex systems development. Based on the industry standard Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Rose Technical Developer provides a highly automated and reliable solution to the unique problems of concurrency and distribution.
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(12-08-06)
Manage requirements using Microsoft Word, while leveraging analytical capabilities such as requirements analysis, coverage and change impact with this easy-to-use yet powerful tool.
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(12-08-06)
IBM Rational Software Architect is an integrated design and development tool that leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services.
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(12-07-06)
Align IT processes with business requirements using free enterprise architecture tools, technologies, and information from IBM.
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(11-14-06)
IBM Rational Software Architect is an integrated design and development tool that leverages model-driven development with the UML for creating well-architected applications and services.
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(11-07-06)
Rational Functional Tester Extension for Terminal-based Applications brings the power of Rational Functional Tester to TN3270 (zSeries), TN5250 (iSeries) and VT100 (Unix) applications.
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(11-06-06)
You can now evaluate Rational ClearCase V7.0 without installing or configuring it on your own system! Rational ClearCase is a comprehensive solution that provides integration with design, development, build, test, and deployment tools for controlled access to software assets across the full lifecycle. Rational ClearCase is seamlessly integrated with IBM Rational ClearQuest for a complete change and configuration management solution. Visit developerWorks to learn more about this product and register to explore its capabilities online.
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(11-06-06)
Rational ClearQuest automates and enforces development processes for better insight, predictability, and control of the software lifecycle. ClearQuest integrates with design, development, build, test and deployment tools and facilitates communication across the organization.
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(09-16-08)
In Version 1.2, Data Studio Developer and Data Studio pureQuery Runtime include a new feature called client optimization that enables DBAs and developers to take advantage of the benefits of static SQL execution without having to modify their existing custom-developed, framework-based, or packaged JDBC applications. This tutorial shows you how to use the tooling provided by Data Studio Developer to enable a JDBC application to use this new capability.
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(09-16-08)
The BlackBerry from Research In Motion (RIM) is a popular platform, but third-party applications are still needed for the BlackBerry platform. There is no better way to bring those applications to fruition than to enable the help from the open source community. Follow along as this tutorial lays the groundwork for an open source data-collection application, upon which an accessible and easy-to-use data-collection service is built.
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(09-16-08)
Web developers are enjoying a renaissance. After spending much of the previous decade toiling on server-centric code, programmers are now putting code front-and-center, turning the Web browser into its own computing platform. Much of the renaissance must be attributed to ingenuity. The newest generation of tools and application frameworks automate and simplify the drudgery of building, deploying, and maintaining a Web site. There are also more tools than ever, and all the most innovative tools are open source. This tutorial provides an expansive survey of the free software available to developers to create and deploy Web applications.
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(09-16-08)
While Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 have been all the rage, the latest wave of emerging technologies are focusing on not only giving Web applications a desktop-like feel, but on actually bringing them to the desktop. The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) has led the way, allowing Web application developers to leverage their existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and Flex to build powerful desktop applications. In this tutorial, you will use the open source Aptana Studio IDE, the Adobe AIR plug-in for Aptana, and the open-source JavaScript framework Ext.
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(06-20-08)
This tutorial shows you how to tune a typical J2EE application for performance by analyzing database usage and by using the Rational Application Developer Java Profiler to identify costly operations.
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(05-15-08)
This is the first in a two-part tutorial series creating secure Java-based Web applications using Rational Application Developer, Data Studio and Rational AppScan. This first tutorial begins by showcasing how Data Studio with pureQuery can increase the efficiency of your database-driven Web development. You will be developing a Java Web application with Rational Application Developer, and then with Java Server Pages (JSP) you will deploy the application on WebSphere Application Server.
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(03-07-08)
Learn how IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality addresses IBM WebSphere MQ with Web services. You get hands-on experience in creating a test, handling the WebSphere MQ series protocol, configuring the test, and then replaying it.
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(03-03-08)
This tutorial applies the concepts that were covered in the first part of this two-part series to a real-world example.
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(02-28-08)
This first part of the series walks you through building a Web service for a simple calculator application. You generate and test two different types of Web services clients: a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) client and a stand-alone Java client. You also handle user-defined exceptions in Web services.
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(01-26-08)
Regression testing--in which code is thoroughly tested to ensure that changes have not produced unexpected results--is an important part of any development process. But many testing environments neglect the terminal-based applications that still form the backbone of many industries. In this tutorial, you'll learn how the Rational Functional Tester Extension for Terminal-Based Applications works with other Rational Functional Tester to help test terminal-based applications quickly and easily.
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(01-26-08)
Learn how Rational Build Forge can extend a simple compile and package build process by adding customization and deployment capability. Go from a manual method to automating: checking for code changes; getting the latest source; compiling and packaging; customizing; copying to and restarting a deployment server; and sending e-mail notification that a new version is available.
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(01-26-08)
Learn how to implement a build management system that uses and extends your existing automation technologies. This tutorial shows, step-by-step, how to install and configure IBM Rational Build Forge to manage builds for Jakarta Tomcat from source code.
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(01-26-08)
Learn the basics of the IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS). With a hands-on exercise, learn how to get your first CICS application up and running on your desktop using TXSeries v6.1 for Windows. The tutorial shows you how to download and install a free trial version of TXSeries v6.1.
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(01-24-08)
In this tutorial, you can learn how to install and configure the IBM Rational Asset Manager Eclipse client, explore the different views in the Asset Management perspective, learn various search techniques, work with existing assets, and submit a new asset.
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(12-03-07)
This tutorial takes you step by step through unit and component testing specifically for Java code, Web services, servlets, Service Component Architecture (SCA), and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) beans using the JUnit and Jakarta Cactus testing frameworks and simple HelloWorld samples. Also, learn how to automate these tests using IBM Rational Software Architect, IBM Rational Application Developer, and IBM WebSphere Integration Developer.
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(06-12-07)
Part 2 of the "Building Google gadgets" series introduces the advanced features of gadgets, including creating a tabbed user interface, drag and drop, and MiniMessages, and gets you started creating your own.
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(05-17-07)
Get an overview of IBM Rational Performance Tester in this basic tutorial, which includes both demos and hello world exercises. Practical, hands-on exercises teach you how to record automated performance tests, use data-driven techniques to ensure randomization, play-back tests, and evaluate real-time performance reports.
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(05-17-07)
Learn how to build a simple dynamic Web site using Rational Business Developer Extension and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL). The site you build has two pages: one to display a list of records in a database and another to allow users to change the data in one of those records. You can create this Java technology-based Web site without knowing any Java code or J2EE; this tutorial demonstrates Rational Business Developer Extension's ability to create complex applications using a simple business-oriented language and powerful graphical editing tools.
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(05-16-07)
IBM Rational modeling offerings simplify C# application development by providing tools to help you visualize existing code, model components, and transform elements between models and C# code. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to get started by importing a .NET solution to an Eclipse workspace. You'll then capture your application design in UML models, create a transformation configuration, and run a UML-to-C# transformation to generate the C# code for further development with Microsoft Visual Studio.
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(05-16-07)
Get an overview of WebSphere Portal by following these two practical exercises in this tutorial. You'll also find demos that take you through the steps. You will develop and test your first portlet using Rational Application Developer with the WebSphere Portal Test Environment. Then, you'll deploy your portlet in a production environment using WebSphere Portal.
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(04-19-07)
This tutorial, Part 4 of the Design SOA services with Rational Software Architect series, will discuss how to move a design forward from UML into WSDL and Java—artifacts that you can run and test. A key feature of IBM® Rational® Software Architect that you'll use in this tutorial is the ability to automate the transformation between models. We discuss this feature, and show how this approach can assist you as you look to move past design and into the implementation of a solution.
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(04-03-07)
Discover how to authenticate using a user ID and password, ensure integrity using digital signatures, and ensure confidentiality using encryption.
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(11-07-06)
Record automated functional tests, enhance the tests through Java scripting, and play back those tests as part of a regression test suite. Learn how in this tutorial, part of the Hello World series.
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(10-25-06)
Get an overview of the unified domain interfaces that are the preferred method of client programming for Java Message Service (JMS) 1.1. And learn how to configure WebSphere? MQ as the JMS provider for the Rational? Application Developer (Application Developer) WebSphere Test Environment and how to run applications with that configuration.
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(09-12-06)
In this tutorial, you follow a simple scenario to learn how Rational Data Architect can be used to provide a modeling and design tool to create a unified, virtual view across heterogeneous data sources.
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(05-24-06)
Get an overview of—and hands-on experience in—designing an application using UML diagrams, publishing the model information into a Web page, and transforming the design to Java using Rational Software Architect.
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(06-20-06)
This tutorial shows you how to create a Java application, create and invoke a Web service, and create a Web application that can access a Cloudscape database using a Relational Record List.
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(07-25-06)
The third tutorial in the developerWorks "Hello World" series introduces you to WebSphere Integration Developer. Three hands-on examples show you how to create a BPEL business process and a business rule group and then integrate them.
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(05-31-06)
Using easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, this tutorial samples some of the visual UML 2.0 modeling capabilities. By the end, you'll know how to create a variety of different UML 2.0 diagrams, import existing modeling projects, and edit models.
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(05-10-06)
Explore how to create, edit, deploy, and debug SQL stored procedures using Rational Data Architect. In addition, learn how to share a project in CVS. By the time you finish, you will know how to model, build, test, and deploy DB2 databases--all from a single, integrated tool.
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(04-24-06)
Rational Application Developer provides diagrams that enable you to view code from different perspectives using UML 2.0 notation. These diagrams are referred to as UML visualization. This tutorial introduces you to the process of creating UML and non-UML diagrams using Rational Application Developer.
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(07-23-08)
The IBM Rational Quality Management Open Beta Program is now live! Experience the v8 portfolio first hand and participate in the open beta program featuring IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational Test Lab Manager. Hear the latest information on the new beta v8 quality management portfolio, including Rational Quality Manager--our new business-driven software quality portal and Rational Test Lab Manager--our new end-to-end test lab management solution.
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(07-23-08)
Listen to this interactive discussion on best practices for quality management throughout the lifecycle. Quality specialists Brian Bryson and Matt Holitza will lead this discussion and try to unravel some of the challenges and mysteries of implementing quality management in modern, distributed organizations.
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(07-23-08)
Perhaps youve heard of mash-ups, but cant see how this technology would benefit your company. In this online presentation, Larry Bowden will discuss IBM's strategy and show examples of how you can leverage mashup technology to achieve significant benefits for your enterprise.
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(07-23-08)
Deploying enterprise resource planning applications such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft or Oracle is a risky proposition. These complex, integrated applications have broad impact on core business functionality and require special attention from Quality Assurance organizations. Teams that focus solely on last minute testing risk failed deployments and corrupted data. To deploy with confidence, QA teams must implement a strategic quality management plan that focuses on requirements, validates functionality, services and performance, and tracks defects. Come hear how IBM Rational can help you with tooling and strategies to ensure the successful deployment of your ERP applications.
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(06-20-08)
One size does not fit all! Subversion is used by many organizations for lightweight version control. But requirements dont vary just from company to company; they may be significantly different from project to project. Can you support the diverse needs of your various projects? Teams can connect heterogeneous SCM environments using tools like Subversion with an enterprise class SCM solution like Rational ClearCase providing the reliability, security, and stability necessary for the organization. Learn how Rational ClearCase and Subversion can coexist for maximum results!
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(06-20-08)
Replication and Change Data Capture enable data to be distributed across critical systems in real time while eliminating costly system workloads. In this webcast, well discuss how this technology can deliver real-time data throughout the enterprise.
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(05-15-08)
This web seminar will teach you how you can defend your web applications from attack. Learn about the three most common web application attacks, including how they occur and what can be done to prevent them. Well also discuss manual versus automated approaches for scanning and identifying web application vulnerabilities and how IBM Rational AppScan, an automated vulnerability scanner, can help you automate more of what you are doing manually today.
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(05-15-08)
Join this webcast to see how IBM Data Studio Developer and pureQuery can take the pain out of Java data access. Applications developed using both Java and SQL have become a common requirement. Database connectivity using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) to create an application is a multi-step tedious process, and tooling that covers both SQL and Java has been unavailable, until now. IBM Data Studio introduces the pureQuery platform: a high-performance, Java data access platform focused on simplifying the tasks of developing, managing, and optimizing database applications and services.
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(05-15-08)
Join this Rational Talks to You teleconference, to hear how Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) eliminates the need for tedious and error-prone low level coding, so developers can focus on business requirements. EGL extends the Rational software development platform with a simplified programming language that enables developers who have little or no experience with Java, web technologies or SOA, to create enterprise-class applications and services quickly and easily. It also allows developers who may have little or no mainframe programming experience to quickly create traditional mainframe components.
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(05-15-08)
Whether you are creating new applications or modifying existing ones, managing integration of new components with traditional z/OS elements is a critical part of building and deploying modern applications. Listen to this webcast to see how IBM can help you optimize your development process using an IDE like Rational Developer for System z that integrates with management tools, such as ClearCase to manage your application development on mainframes.
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(04-17-08)
Join us for this on demand webcast to learn about developing complex systems more quickly and efficiently. We'll cover market drivers for developing, governing and reusing system software assets with Rational Asset Manager.
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(04-17-08)
In this Rational Talks to You teleconference, Clear Case experts Paul Boustany and Mark Krasovich discuss becoming a Rational ClearCase power user. Get a chance to ask your questions and learn tips and tricks for using Rational ClearCase in Agile development.
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(04-17-08)
Attend this launch webcast with Scott Hebner, Vice President of IBM Rational Marketing and Strategy, for an overview of Rationals new software offerings and resources to help modernize and accelerate software innovation on i on Power Systems while ensuring past application investments are protected and continue to grow. Learn how Rational solutions help customers extend their core i5/OS solutions toward modern architectures such as SOA and web technologies.
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(12-17-08)
There are many challenges in requirements definition and management all centered around the difficulty of getting your requirements right , before the software product is released. This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze and evaluate ideas, to define the best possible solution requirements, as well as the costs of missing the mark. The paper also provides valuable information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements, and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams to address these areas, and drive better solutions to market faster.
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(08-08-08)
IBM Rational Requirements Composer's features and advanced collaborative capabilities makes the requirements process accessible to all project stakeholders working on developing and meeting requirements.
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(12-05-08)
Did you know that a software change management solution you possibly already own, Rational ClearQuest, can be the cornerstone of your Application Lifecycle Management strategy? I bet not. You were probably thinking, "That's crazy, Rational ClearQuest is just for tracking bugs."
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(08-08-08)
IBM Rational Requirements Composer's features and advanced collaborative capabilities makes the requirements process accessible to all project stakeholders working on developing and meeting requirements.
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(10-15-08)
Collaboration in software development isnt a luxuryits a necessity that software teams have to figure out how to do better. With the right tools such as IBMs Rational Team Concert built on the Jazz technology, any size software development team can stay in sync in real-time, regardless of location.
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(07-23-08)
Use this enablement roadmap for an easy step-by-step approach to growing your Rational Team Concert skills.
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(07-23-08)
Learn how the integration of an Agile planning tool with IBM Rational Team Concert and Jazz provides greater visibility, opportunities for collaboration, and traceability as well as process awareness into a single platform for improving development productivity.
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(07-23-08)
This article explains two ways to manage test assets by using IBM Rational Team Concert with IBM Rational ClearQuest. Team Concert includes integrated work item, source control, and build management support, all optimized for small and medium-sized teams. It is the first product that is based on the Jazz technology platform that IBM Rational introduced in early 2008. Jazz is a commercial but open-source background for scalable and extensible team collaboration that seamlessly integrates tasks across the software development lifecycle.
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(07-09-08)
Governance, developer productivity, business agility, communication, the list of what your company is requiring goes on and on. If you're not centrally managing your software assets, you and your organization are toast and any hope of software reuse is mired in a sea of artifacts. Learn why you need a central software asset manager and why IBM Rational Asset Manager is just the ticket.
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(06-24-08)
Model-driven development is increasingly becoming more important for all phases of software development. Learn how IBM Rational Systems Developer gives you the benefits of modeling your systems without the pain of forcing you into a certain way of developing code.
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(03-20-08)
Change is a constant of software development. Tracking defects, issues, and feature requests is a critical component of project success. When bugs are resolved early and quickly, lower development costs, higher quality products, and faster time to market are the likely outcome (along with the attendant boost to your team's reputation). The question is how one successfully manages change in today's complex heterogeneous development environments.
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(01-24-08)
Learn about the critical role that a discipline called integrated requirements management can play in helping to ensure that your business goals and IT investments are continuously aligned--whether you are sourcing, integrating, building or maintaining software.
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(12-26-07)
Web applications are now the #1 focus of hackers. It's not surprising given the increasingly high value of data collected. Customer information, credit card numbers, health and financial records are all ripe targets for the unscrupulous. According to Gartner, an astounding 80 percent of organizations will experience an application security incident by 2010.
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(12-14-07)
The demands SOA places on your QA team are enormous and neither traditional nor manual test processes can keep up with Web service development's unique challenges. Learn how IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality automates the complexity away from functional and performance testing of Web services without requiring extensive training or programming knowledge.
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(10-30-07)
Software and systems development can be maddeningly frustrating. Understanding where you are in the "process", how you got there, and where to go from here is often unclear. At times it seems like everyone is following their own process despite earnest efforts of project managers and process engineers to "standardize" the process with which work is done.
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(10-10-07)
The IBM SOA Sandbox is an online learning environment designed to help enterprise architects, integration developers, and Web developers increase SOA skills through practical, hands-on experience. The IBM SOA Sandbox includes five SOA entry points: people, process, information, reuse, and connectivity. Each entry point provides a predefined SOA solution that you can quickly implement based on real-world customer experience and IBM best practices. Visit IBM developerWorks to try the IBM SOA Sandbox today!
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(08-31-07)
IBM Rational Rose users seeking increased productivity, improved collaboration capabilities, and enhanced functionality should consider the more advanced features and functionality of the IBM Rational Software v7.0 tools. Learn why it pays to consider using or migrating existing Rational Rose projects to Rational Software Architect, Rational Software Modeler, and other tools.
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(08-07-07)
The jury of public opinion may not have made up its mind about Second Life yet, but IBM is expending great effort to make sure that developers experience its transformational potential as an intellectual festival for likeminded professionals.
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(08-07-07)
Can you build the ultimate SENTINEL defender? Compete against your fellow coders and explore Second Life as you strive to defeat evil and protect Codestation. Beginning on Tuesday, July 31 all of the details on the Challenge can be found at specially marked kiosks in Codestation.
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(08-06-07)
The open source release of the Second Life viewer program by developer Linden Lab offers a rare opportunity to peer into the comparative strengths of closed and open source development models. This article, the first in a series, gives an overview of some of the differences between these development styles, and talks about what's involved in setting up your own build environment.
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(08-06-07)
The developer documentation in the Second Life client takes the form of a wiki. In Part 2 of our ongoing exploration of the Second Life software, take a look at that documentation, and use it to jump-start some modifications to the client.
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(08-06-07)
In the last part of our exploration of the Second Life software, learn how to plug a simple command-line program into Second Life that provides a language translation function.
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(05-25-07)
Patterns let you capture domain knowledge, best practices, and design expertise in tools such as Rational Software Architect to improve productivity, efficiency, and quality while automating and minimizing the mundane and mechanical aspects of software development.
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(03-13-07)
IBM Rational Application Developer v7 allows you to download only the features you need and is easily customized to your role and requirements. New pre-packaged views, perspectives, code samples, wizards, tutorials, and a host of other goodies, make it easier than ever to rapidly develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high quality Java/J2EE, Web, Web services, and SOA applications
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(03-06-07)
IBM Rational version 7 tools virtually knock out the silos that exist between Visual Studio.NET, C/C++, and Java programmers in heterogeneous and globally dispersed environments enabling your entire development and deployment team to work smarter and more efficiently on all your application development projects.
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(12-22-06)
IBM Rational has just simplified the process of SAP regression and performance testing, ensuring successful deployment of any upgrades and changes you make to your SAP system, as well as enabling you to optimize the performance, quality, and reliability of your SAP application to meet critical business requirements.
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(12-08-06)
IBM Rational Software Architect is an advanced model-driven development and static analysis tool for software architects and model-driven developers who are creating SOA, J2EE and portal applications.
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(11-07-06)
Download a free trial version of IBM Rational? Functional Tester. Rational Functional Tester is an advanced, automated functional and regression testing tool for testers and GUI developers who need superior control for testing applications based on Java, Microsoft? Visual Studio .NET?, and Web technologies.
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(11-06-06)
Your development skills need to evolve away from 3GL, toward modeling and more abstract development methodologies, if you plan to survive the disruptive forces reshaping the software industry.
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(09-29-06)
IBM Rational ClearQuest and IBM Rational Software Development Platform provide a customizable off-the-shelf solution for process and workflow management, lifecycle traceability, and breaking down software development and deployment silos across the application lifecycle.
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(08-01-06)
Get IBM Rational Build ForgeTM for building and releasing management capabilities and to streamline your software delivery throughout the development lifecycle. Learn more
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(06-23-06)
If you need to test and insure the quality, reliability, and robustness of SOA applications, components, libraries, and services written in native C/C++, or a mixture of Java and C/C++, you can't live without IBM Rational PurifyPlus.
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(05-25-06)
IBM Rational's business-level programming language, development tools, and new initiative enable development of mainframe SOA and "services-ready" applications.
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Requirements Definition as the Foundation for Effective Software Delivery: Definitive Requirements for Delivering Successful SOA Based Applications
