New Rational Products and Enhancements Offer a Fully Integrated Software Development Platform
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Software Announcement November 2, 2004 New Rational products and enhancements offer a fully integrated software development platform Overview Key prerequisites At a glance New and enhanced offerings from Refer to the Hardware requirements Rational software continue to drive and Software requirements sections. Offerings include new and updated the importance of software Rational products for design and development as a way for Planned availability dates construction and software quality. organizations to differentiate Key demonstrable capabilities business performance and compete Electronic software delivery: include: in the marketplace. The goals of this • release are to broaden appeal, raise • December 3, 2004: Deeper, richer integrations in new offerings for architects, productivity, extend integrations, and − Rational Application maintain standards consistency. developers, and testers based Developer for WebSphere on Eclipse 3.0, Hyades, and New products: Software V6.0 UML 2.0 − Rational Web Developer for • IBM Rational Web Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0 • Simplified design and WebSphere Software V6.0 − Rational Functional Tester construction featuring V6.1 drag-and-drop UI construction, • IBM Rational Application − Rational Manual Tester V6.1 rapid deployment to WebSphere Developer for WebSphere Application Server, and visual Software V6.0 • December 10, 2004: WebSphere Portal development • IBM Rational Software Modeler − Rational Software Architect V6.0 V6.0 − Rational Software Modeler • IBM Rational Software Architect V6.0 V6.0 − Rational Professional Bundle • IBM Rational Manual Tester V6.1 V6.0 • IBM Rational Professional Bundle Physical software delivery: V6.0 • January 7, 2005: Enhanced product: − Rational Application • IBM Rational Functional Tester Developer for WebSphere V6.11 Software V6.0 − Rational Web Developer for Additional product and competitive WebSphere Software V6.0 product trade-ups are also available. − Rational Functional Tester For a complete list of competitive V6.1 trade-ups, contact your IBM sales − Rational Manual Tester V6.1 representative. • January 14, 2005: For more information on IBM Rational products, visit − Rational Software Architect V6.0 http://www.ibm.com/ − Rational Software Modeler software/rational V6.0 − Rational Professional Bundle For information about the Passport V6.0 Advantage program visit 1 Refer to Software Announcement http://www.ibm.com/software/ 204-270, dated November 2, 2004. passportadvantage This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 204-269 environment to match their needs and to increase Description productivity. When Web Developer is used with the IBM Software Development Platform, developers can access Design and construction a broad range of requirements and change management functions directly from Web Developer. IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Optimized for individuals Software is a comprehensive integrated development environment that can help accelerate application Each of the design and construction products in the development with full support for the Java 2 Enterprise release are designed for specific types of users. Some Edition (J2EE) V1.4 programming model including Web, of the products include all or some of the functionality Java, Web services (including those on a Service Oriented contained in other products, resulting in a series of subset Architecture (SOA)), and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) or superset relationships. Rational Web Developer is the development. With integrated Portal, UML visual editing, base product in the hierarchy. Rational Application code analysis, and automated test and deployment tools, Developer includes all of the capabilities in Rational Web Application Developer includes virtually everything Java Developer and adds additional features. Rational developers need to create well designed code that is Application Developer includes some of the features scalable and ready for production. Rational ClearCase found in Rational Software Modeler. Rational Software LT is included for developers working on complex projects Architect is the superset of all these products plus or within large teams to coordinate versioning and to additional features. protect team assets. Guidance for Informix customers Optimized for WebSphere software, and supporting multi-vendor runtime environments, Application The Informix 4GL to Enterprise Generation Language Developer is powered by the Eclipse open source platform (EGL) Conversion Utility is available as an Interim Fix so developers can adapt and extend their development (iFix) with the Rational Web Developer for WebSphere environment to match their needs and to increase Software V6.0, Rational Application Developer for productivity. When Application Developer is used with WebSphere Software V6.0, and Rational Software the IBM Software Development Platform, developers can Architect V6.0 products. The Informix 4GL to EGL access a broad range of requirements and change Conversion Utility and the resulting EGL Text Runtime management functions directly from Application environment is not supported or maintained as part of the Developer. IBM Rational Product Maintenance offerings. IBM will offer support and maintenance for the Informix 4GL to IBM Rational Software Architect is a design and EGL Conversion Utility and the resulting EGL Text development tool that leverages model-driven Runtime environment as part of the Informix 4GL Runtime development with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) Compiler Runtime or Informix 4GL RDS Runtime Product for creating well-architected applications and services. Maintenance offerings available through Passport Advantage. Customers must have current, valid Informix Rational Software Architect unifies all aspects of 4GL Runtime Compiler Runtime or Informix 4GL RDS architecture and development into one powerful and Runtime Product Maintenance agreements from Passport easy-to-use tool. It supports understanding, designing, Advantage to receive any support or fixes to the Informix managing, and evolving enterprise solutions and 4GL to EGL Conversion Utility and the resulting EGL Text services. The product includes all the features of Rational Runtime environment. Customers must have a current, Application Developer for WebSphere Software and is valid Informix 4GL Runtime Compiler Runtime or Informix built on top of the open and extensible Eclipse platform 4GL RDS Runtime Product Maintenance in order to and leverages several open-industry standards. This continue running Informix 4GL applications in parallel with enables users to create applications optimized for IBM converted EGL applications. middleware, and those developed using middleware technology from other vendors. Software quality IBM Rational Software Modeler is a visual modeling and design tool that enables users to clearly document and IBM Rational Functional Tester is an advanced functional communicate these varying views on a system. and regression test automation tool for testers and GUI developers validating application quality. Rational Software Modeler supports the UML, an industry-standard modeling language that offers all IBM Rational Functional Tester is for any team concerned stakeholders the greatest familiarity in modeling notation. about the quality of their Java, VS.NET, and Web-based The product is built on top of the open and extensible applications. Combining advanced test development Eclipse platform and leverages several open-industry techniques with the simplification and automation of basic standards to provide a high level of extensibility. This test needs, Rational Functional Tester is designed to allows customers and third parties to integrate their improve and accelerate the process of system test modeling practices into existing environments for meeting creation, execution, and results analysis to provide the the most rigid customization needs. early capture and repair of application errors. IBM Rational Web Developer for WebSphere Software is IBM Rational Manual Tester is a manual test authoring an integrated development environment that makes Web, and execution tool that promotes test step reuse to Web services, and Java development quick and easy. reduce the impact of software change on testers and With a broad range of visual development, testing, and business analysts. deployment tools that are easy to learn and use, Web Developer is a perfect fit for application developers who IBM Rational Manual Tester is for any industry looking to are new to Java or who don′t need to build their own EJB improve the organization and efficiency of their manual components. validation efforts. Innovative technology supporting test step reuse is combined with rich test editing and Optimized for WebSphere software, and supporting customization features to help teams improve their multi-vendor runtime environments, Web Developer is manual testing projects, exposing more errors in less time powered by the Eclipse open source platform so and thus helping to ensure greater application quality developers can adapt and extend their development before deployment. 204-269 -2- Design and construction/Software quality/Requirements and analysis IBM Rational Professional Bundle is a comprehensive offering for developing and testing J2EE, Web