IBM Version 5 WebSphere Studio Site Developer Advanced, WebSphere Studio Application Developer

The WebSphere Studio family of products provide integrated development tools for all e-business development roles including Web developers, Java developers, business analysts, architects, and Enterprise programmers. The customizable, targeted and role-based approach of the Workbench will be a common characteristic of future products in the WebSphere Studio family.

WebSphere Studio Site Developer Advanced

Site Developer Advanced is an IDE intended for Web developers who develop and manage complex Web sites. It is an easy-to-use toolset that minimizes the time and effort required to create, manage, and debug multi-platform Web sites. It is designed according to the J2SE and J2EE specifications, and supports JSPs, servlets, HTML, JavaScript, and DHTML. It further includes tools for developing images and animated GIFs.

Site Developer Advanced enables Web developers to use their favorite content creation tools in conjunction with the built-in local and remote publishing capabilities.

Using Site Developer Advanced, you can develop Web applications that use the following technologies.

￿JSPs: A simple, fast and consistent way to extend Web server functionality and create dynamic Web content. JSPs enable rapid development of Web applications that are server and platform-independent.

￿Servlets: Server code that executes within a Web Application Server.

￿Web services: Self-contained, modular applications that can be described, published, located, and invoked over the Internet or within intranets.

WebSphere Studio Application Developer

Application Developer is designed for professional developers of Java and J2EE applications, who require integrated Web, XML, and Web services support.

It includes all of the features of Site Developer Advanced, and adds tools for developing EJB applications, as well as performance profiling and logging tools for both local and remote execution.

Developers can quickly build and test business logic and enhance the presentation artifacts with built-in Web creation tools inside the Application Developer IDE before deploying to a production server.

Using the performance profiling and tracing tools makes it possible to detect application performance bottlenecks earlier in the development cycle. Furthermore, the built-in test environment for WebSphere Application Server and advanced tools for code generation help to shorten the test cycle.

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