![]() I had toyed with VA and many other similar tools in the past but had judged them all “Not Ready For Prime Time.” Like most J2EE developers, I continued to us “vi” and command line tools for most of my J2EE development. Earlier versions were, TTBOMK, Visual Age evolutions. Our mission is to increase the productivity of our constituents – whether they are students or clients.īefore its acquisition of Rational in December 2003, IBM introduced the WebSphere Studio Application Developer tool (WSAD) version 5.0. Please note that we are not selling any product nor do we hold stock, options, or any form of equities in any of the products mentioned. There seems to be a lot of developer frustration with the IBM tooling, including in the areas of price, performance, and features. Occasionally we get asked about the completely free Eclipse Web Tools Project. By far, the most often tool comparison that is requested is IBM Rational Application Developer (or RAD) (or its bigger brother, IBM Rational Software Architect, or RSA) and MyEclipse. ![]() We frequently get asked many questions about the state of Java Enterprise Edition developer tools in classrooms and as consultants. Executive Summary: IBM's RAD Tooling cost companies tens of thousands of dollars per developer per year in lost productivity above and beyond the product's cost.
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