An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer A Guided Tour

This book helps readers to quickly learn WebSphere Studio v6. For beginners to WebSphere Studio there are tutorials on how to create Web, Data, EJB, JMS, and Web Services applications using WebSphere Studio. For the more advanced reader there are tutorials on Security, Publishing, Testing, Team Development, Profiling and Logging. The authors have written the tutorials to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible by designing them to be run on 4 common databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, and Sybase. This book is planned to publish within months after the announcement of V6 of WebSphere Studio making it the first to market on this version.

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 Popescu 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. 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.