An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer

Overview

An interactive guide to building, testing, and deploying WebSphere applications

Designed to jumpstart the learning process with a wide variety of interactive, practical, end-to-end tutorials, this guide to IBM Rational Application Developer contains hands-on exercises and in-depth explanations of each specific topic. Each tutorial’s exercise is independent of any earlier tutorials, allowing readers to skip from tutorial to tutorial, based on their specific knowledge requirements. Tutorials range from beginning introductions to creating Web, EJB, JMS, and Web Services applications to advanced tutorials on security, publishing, testing, team development, profiling, and logging. All tutorials run on IBM Cloudscape, IBM DB2« Universal Database, Microsoft« SQL Server, Sybase« Enterprise Systems, and Oracle« Database.

Author Biography

Jane Fung is a staff software developer at IBM Canada where she is responsible for developing the Business Process Debugger in WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Integration Edition. She previously worked in the WebSphere Studio technical support team. She lives in Markham, Ontario. Christina Lau is an architect on the WebSphere Business Scenario development team responsible for analyzing customer scenarios and improving integration and consistency across the WebSphere platform. She lives in Markham, Ontario. Colin Yu is a technical designer with the WebSphere business scenario development team at the IBM Software Solutions Toronto lab. He lives in Markham, Ontario. Valentina Birsan is an advisory software developer at the IBM Toronto lab where she leads a team developing user interfaces for profiling, tracing, and logging tools running on the Eclipse platform. She lives in Markham, Ontario. Yen Lu is an advisory software developer at IBM Canada where he is responsible for the architecture and development of the Web Services Explorer in the IBM WebSphere Studio suite. He lives in Markham, Ontario. Peter Walker is an advisory software engineer and developer of the WebSphere Studio Visual Editor for Java. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Joe Winchester is a senior advisory software engineer and developer of the WebSphere Studio Visual Editor for Java. Ellen McKay is an information developer for the IBM WebSphere Studio family of tools. She lives in Markham, Ontario. Dr. Gili Mendel is the technical lead for the Visual Editor for Java project and a member of the IBM WebSphere Tools software development team. Timothy deBoer is the team lead for the deployment and publishing of tools found in the WebSphere Studio family of products. He lives in Markham, Ontario. Gary Flood is an advisory IT specialist who works with a number of J2EE technologies, including JMS and EJB, through the Patterns for eBusiness initiative and the WebSphere platform solution test team. James Hunter assists organizations in their adoption of the IBM software development platform and worked as a senior technical consultant in Rational for five years before joining IBM. Sridhar Iyengar leads the technical strategy for IBM Rational Software and works closely with Rational, WebSphere« and DB2« development teams in IBM on the design and development of the IBM Software Development Platform. He also serves on the IBM Software Group Architecture Board Steering Committee & the OMG Architecture Board.