Websphere studio application developer integration edition

From a small workstation to a powerful mainframe. Business logic is everywhere. But how can you integrate all of this disparate business logic into an application that maps to your real world business processes?

This IBM Redbook explains how to use Integration Edition to expose a common interface to disparate business logic by developing enterprise services. This redbook provides step-by-step examples for building an enterprise service for a Java class and a CICS application. These enterprise services can be incorporated into a flow that represents an organization's real business process, using the WebSphere Application Server Enterprise Process Choreographer.

This redbook introduces the Process Choreographer, then provides step-by-step instructions for building two processes in Integration Edition. We found the database modeling and XML tools to be among this package's stronger features. The database wizard made quick work of mapping relational database tables to EJB components, with real-time connections to databases for easy table importing.

From back end to front, Application Developer rounds out its capabilities with a strong Web page construction platform. There's even an image editor for creating line art and manipulating graphics. Although the capabilities are not going to inspire graphic artists to throw out Adobe Photoshop, at the very least this tool provides an additional resource for making last-minute design tweaks.

Application Developer shines in support of productivity and efficiency through its multipaned, role-based project views, giving Java developers access to pertinent data -- such as source code, database tables, and EJBs -- while focusing Web developers on components relevant to their design efforts.

Application Developer maintains harmony by managing all elements in a common data store, then automatically updating resources and links through all tiers as necessary. This package provides some good, basic team-based development tools supporting CVS Concurrent Versions System , the open-source version control system, as well as Rational ClearCase LT, suitable for small project workgroups.

When it came to testing and debugging, we found Application Developer offered robust support. The debug facilities offer all the traditional accoutrements: breakpoints, variable examination, and interaction with running processes, for example. Application Developer also provides for live server-side and remote code debugging, a plus for distributed environments. The profiling and analysis tools allow developers to sneak a peek at running applications, view thread interactions, and glean performance metrics that can isolate performance problems and optimize application throughput.

In our initial Version 4. Other productivity features include performance analysis and tracing tools, automatic code generation, integrated debuggers, and built-in test environments to detect bugs early in the development process.

Additional features are designed to help smooth the transition from application development to application deployment. Load-testing and application monitoring enable developers to assess how the applications will function in a production environment. This is a feature-rich and high value on-ramp for the WebSphere development experience. This product is most suitable for developers who need to build, test and maintain dynamic Web sites, but do not need to create EJBs.

Site Developer has been designed to allow developers to quickly and easily build and test applications with built-in debuggers, a unit test environment with concurrent support for WebSphere Application Server V4. WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition now available on Linux is the perfect companion for creating built-to-integrate solutions. It includes all the features in WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and functions like flow choreography, JCA support, and others to help you deal with complex development challenges.

Business logic and application data are scattered throughout the organization across multiple software assets. Furthermore, companies face constant pressure to create new applications in order to cut costs, build customer loyalties, and gain a competitive advantage. WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition can help companies to reduce IT complexity, reuse existing resources, and automate business processes through a powerful but simplified build-to-integrate framework.

Service-oriented architecture reduces the complexity of large-scale application development and promotes reuse by offering a standard way of representing and interacting with virtually all software assets.

Integrated workflow increases development productivity and promotes reuse by enabling developers to visually choreograph interactions between software assets. Advanced transactional connectivity capabilities help developers avoid custom coding by providing extended transactional support for the many challenges related to integrating existing software assets with a J2EE environment.