An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer: A Guided Tour (IBM Illustrated Guide Series) - Softcover

Fung, Jane; Lau, Christina; McKay, Ellen; Birsan, Valentina; Yu, Colin; Winchester, Joe; Mendel, Dr. Dr. Gili; Flood, Gary; Walker, Peter; DeBoer, Timothy; Lu, Yen; Hunter, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931182221 ISBN 13: 9781931182225

Publisher: IBM Press, 2005

Synopsis

IBM Rational Application Developer is a very important tool for developers, but it is also a complex product. An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer, A Guided Tour is designed to jumpstart the learning process with its focus on interactive hands-on learning through a wide variety of useful, practical, end-to-end tutorials.

Hands-on exercises and in-depth explanations form chapter "modules" within the book, thereby providing a complete step-by-step guide to each specific topic while allowing readers to pick and choose which tutorials they want (or need) to study without necessarily going in chapter order. And, because of its modular structure, each tutorial's sample code is independent of any earlier tutorials, freeing readers to skip from tutorial to tutorial, based on their specific knowledge requirements. Because of this design, this book continues to be a useful reference as a reader's "need to know" increases.

Using this book's method, readers quickly learn IBM Rational Application Developer—regardless of their previous level of experience or inexperience. For beginners, there are tutorials that teach how to create Web, EJB, JMS, and Web Services applications using Rational Application Developer. For the more advanced readers, there are tutorials on security, publishing, testing, team development, profiling, and logging. Written to appeal to as broad an audience as possible, the tutorials run on common databases, including IBM Cloudscape, IBM DB2® Universal Database, Microsoft® SQL Server, Sybase® Enterprise Systems, and Oracle® Database.

About this title

About the Author

The authors are all members of the IBM Rational team. They are in various development and consulting teams of IBM Rational products, including application development tools, deployment and publishing tools, documentation, J2EE technology, profiling and logging tools, Web Service tools and Visual Editor for Java. They have extensive hands-on experience with IBM Rational Application Developer and its predecessor, WebSphere® Studio Application Developer. Together, they have over 100 years of experience at IBM in three different countries and hold dozens of patents.

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An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer

A Guided Tour

By Jane Fung, Colin Yu

IBM Press and MC Press

Copyright © 2007 International Business Machines Corporation
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-931182-22-5

Contents

Title Page, 
Copyright Page, 
Dedication, 
About the Authors, 
Foreword, 
1 - Introduction, 
2 - Developing Java Applications, 
3 - Introduction to Web Development, 
4 - Introduction to Database Development, 
5 - Introduction to XML Development, 
6 - Developing Enterprise JavaBeans, 
7 - Java Messaging Service and Message-Driven Beans, 
8 - Web Services, 
9 - Advanced J2EE Topics, 
10 - Creating Java Visual Applications, 
11 - Team Development with CVS, 
12 - Introduction to Profiling and Logging, 
13 - Visual Modeling, 

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

When IBM acquired Rational Development Corporation, it seemed only natural to move the WebSphere Studio Application Developer family of tools under the IBM Rational brand. This integrates the great capabilities of Rational Application Developer with the quality tools in Rational to provide a seamless development environment. IBM Rational Application Developer is a follow-on product for WebSphere Studio Application Developer and includes many of the best development features of the Rational products.

This introduction contains:

* A brief description of the other chapters in this book

* An overview of Rational Application Developer

* A summary of the help and support information for Rational Application Developer

* An overview of the Product Updater tool that can be used to update and add new features to Rational Application Developer

Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at beginners who want to quickly and easily learn to use Rational Application Developer. Rational Application Developer is a very complex product, and the learning curve involved in using it can be quite steep. Although this book helps introduce you to Rational Application Developer, it will be helpful if you already have some familiarity with it or its predecessor, WebSphere Studio Application Developer. Also, some of the tutorials are written with the expectation that you have at least some knowledge of Java coding.

To help you get started using Rational Application Developer quickly and effectively, tutorials in this book cover the key components in Rational Application Developer. These tutorials give you a hands-on feel for Rational Application Developer and let you learn interactively. As you work through the tutorials, you will start to understand how to use Rational Application Developer to create practical applications without going through pages and pages of background material. We have tried to use real-world examples that reflect the kind of everyday tasks you need to perform.

Many other books use only one database as the basis for their examples. We know that everyone uses different databases; therefore, this book covers five: IBM Cloudscape, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Enterprise Systems, and Oracle Database. If you do not already have a database, you can use the embedded Cloudscape database that ships with Rational Application Developer.

How to Use This Book and CD

Each chapter in this book covers one concept, such as Java applications or Web development. Every chapter starts with a short introduction that covers some basic background material on the concept. Then, one or more tutorials help you explore Rational Application De

Edition details

• Publisher: IBM Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1931182221
• ISBN 13: 9781931182225
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 650