Rational Developer for System z with Java
Overview
A unified development tool for enterprise applications running across System z in environments such as CICS, IMS, DB2, WAS, Compute Grid, and Batch.
Accelerates the development of your Mainframe applications, including traditional COBOL, PL/I, C/C++, and Assembler applications, Java, Java Enterprise Edition, Web Services, Web 2.0 applications, Java Batch application in Compute Grid, and XML-based interfaces linking to the Web
- Helps lower the cost of traditional mainframe application development via selective workload offloading and reducing MIPS utilization for common development activities
- New Rational Developer for System z Unit Test feature creates a personal z/OS environment on each developers desktop or a shared server.
- Helps improve the productivity of developers creating and maintaining mainframe applications and web services before, during and after the transition to a SOA-based environment
- Facilitates shorter development cycles and helps reduce costs by extracting value from existing applications through reuse and transformation, making them accessible as Web services
- Enables developers to rapidly create well-built composite processing that integrates traditional mainframe CICS or IMS transactional applications and WebSphere–based environments
- Read about a Developer Productivity Study by Branham Group which compares IBM Rational Developer for System z to traditional IBM Mainframe Development Tools
- Helps develop creative and data-rich Web-based applications
- Provides visual layout tools to help you write Java Server Faces (JSF), JavaServer Pages (JSP), and HTML
- Includes a wizard to develop servlet and page handler code and supports J2EE coding and deployment
- Includes significant enhancements in Version 8.0 that further increase the efficiency of traditional mainframe and Web services creation
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