IBM Releases Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction V7.5

IBM Releases Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction V7.5

IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction V7.5 lets customers build innovative rich Web applications and UIs to link to backend RPG, COBOL, and Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) business applications.

The product contains powerful EGL-based Web-development tools targeting IBM i. It also helps increase application development productivity by exploiting emerging computing technologies to fulfill new and changing business requirements with minimum retraining effort.

IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction V7.5 helps simplify and accelerate the SOA application development, modernize legacy systems and reduce development costs. You can reuse and extend valuable existing IT assets such as RPG and COBOL programs and service programs by turning existing applications into artifacts needed for service access, for example, Web services.

Customers simply use supplied wizards in IBM Rational Developer for i to create Web services deployed on i. These applications then can be extended to the Web using IBM Rational Business Developer. The products included in this offering are:

• IBM Rational Business Developer
• IBM Rational Developer for i
• IBM Rational HATS Toolkit

Additionally, the product includes automated conversion of IBM VisualAge Generator applications to EGL. IBM Rational Developer for i V7.5 lets you edit, compile and debug traditional and new IBM i RPG and COBOL application development.

Although the HATS Toolkit V7.5 is available as a free download, it's conveniently included in IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction. IBM Rational HATS for 5250 Applications V7.5 is designed to make modernization of UI and creation of Web services even easier.

Effective October 28, 2008, the configurator will provide the following support:

• New orders for IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction can be placed in IBM i 5.4 and 6.1.
• IBM Rational Developer for i and IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction can be selected in the same order.

Planned availability dates
For part number orders

• November 26, 2008, Electronic software delivery
• December 5, 2008, Physical software delivery

For feature code orders
• December 12, 2008, electronic and physical software delivery