Tool: Rational Application Developer

The Rational Application Developer is an integrated development environment for building, testing and deploying J2EE , WebServices and Portal applications. It provides a comprehensive set of tools to promote accelerated application development and increase developer productivity.

IBM® Rational® Application Developer application is a comprehensive integrated development environment, with full support for the J2EE programming model including Web, Java^tm, Web services and EJB development, which accelerates application development. With integrated Portal development, UML visual editing, code analysis, and automated test and deployment tools, Rational Application Developer includes everything developers need to be productive and to help ensure their code is well designed, scaleable and ready for production. Built-in version control and team tools enable developers working on complex projects or within large teams to coordinate versioning and to protect team assets.