What is IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software?

IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software is a commercial Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE). 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.

Features

• **Accelerate development of web and mobile applications: **Simplify and accelerate front-end development with the latest Web 2.0 and hybrid mobile technologies.
• **Speed the development of services and Java applications: **Develop, test and deploy web services, REST and other types of services with Java EE, EJB, JPA, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JMS, EJB Query Language, and more.
• **Optimize for IBM middleware: **Get optimized deployment tools for IBM WebSphere Liberty and IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• **Use advanced test and analysis tools: **Dynamic analysis provides sampling-based and trace-based profiling capabilities to identify, analyze and correct performance trouble spots.
• **Benefit from flexible deployment: **Integrate with the IBM Rational Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management solution to develop and test in a virtualized environment.
• **Flexible pricing and deployment: **With the new IBM Cloud DevOps for Hybrid Deployment bundle, IBM delivers a new consumption model based on FlexPoints.

Benefits

• **Maintain application front ends: **Use tools for established, new and emerging programming models and technologies.
• **Achieve higher initial code quality: **Choose from advanced test and analysis tools to help accelerate development, testing, deployment and management.
• **Install only the features you need: **Benefit from fine-grained installation controls for creating a smaller, more responsive IDE tailored to your needs.