Today's mainframe application development environment is complicated by the need to integrate existing mission critical applications with new web based applications, especailly in the SOA environment. Come to this webcast to be introduced to several IBM offerings that can help you quickly create web services out of existing mainframe applications, identify methods of using less skilled developers to mee your susiness application requirements, and manage the successful deployment of quality cross platform applications more>

Using Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software

This tutorial introduces you to IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software, a comprehensive, highly visually-driven integrated development environment, that takes the process of creating EJB components to its simplest level yet. You will learn new ways to visually construct your components and then run easy to use wizards to create J2EE applications faster than ever. more>

Rational Application Developer provides visual diagramming tools to help you gain insight and knowledge of existing applications or to more easily create and understand new applications. This tutorial covers the creation of four diagram types in Rational Application Developer - class, sequence, browse, and topic diagrams. After completing this tutorial, you will know how to use Rational Application Developer to create class, sequence, browse, and topic diagrams. more>

Learn how to motivate software developers to conform to software development governance in a lean development model. more>

Join the IBM Watchfire team for an informative discussion on techniques and best practices to proactively manage Web application security and how to effectively build application security testing into the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In this Software Delivery Platform webcast you will learn: How to better understand potential web application security vulnerabilities, best practices and how to effectively integrate application security testing into the software development lifecycle, the importance of detecting and removing software vulnerabilities during application development. more>

You might know that you can pull XML data into OpenOffice's spreadsheet program, Calc, but did you know that you can create a filter to make word-processing documents out of data stored as XML? This tutorial shows you how to use OpenOffice's import/export filters to open your XML data as though it's just a plain document. From there, users can edit the document much more naturally and then save it back to its native format. You can also use this feature to easily turn your documents into XML data. more>

Get a free trial download of the latest version of IBM Rational Method Composer V7.2 which helps you deliver customized yet consistent process guidance to your project teams and IT organization, and includes the latest version of IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP), which has provided process guidance to teams since 1996. more>

Discover how Rational tools and best practices for testing can make your job easier. The new Rational Testing eKits provide you with valuable resources – including demos, webcasts, tutorials, and articles – that help you address your specific testing needs across the software lifecycle. Five new eKits are available covering the topics of Requirements and Test Management, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Code Quality and Embedded Systems, and SOA and Web Services Testing. more>

Learn how you can extend modern application lifecycle management to IBM System z through the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP). The Did you say mainframe? e-kit includes podcasts, webcasts, tutorials, white and red papers, demos, and articles designed to help ease the challenges of modernizing your enterprise. This complimentary kit for mainframe developers is a practical, how-to guide for making the most of an existing development environment, including the skills and infrastructure already in place at an established enterprise. more>

IBM Rational Tester for SOA Quality is a functional and regression testing tool that enables the creation, comprehension, modification and execution of testing GUI-less Web services. IBM Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA Quality is a load and performance testing and problem analysis tool that extends performance and scalability testing to SOA applications. These new tools allow you to perform: Script-less automated functional testing of Web services, Functional verification testing of Web services, Interoperability testing of Web services, Load testing of Web services System Resources and SOA monitoring more>

Load & Performance Testing Software: Download a free evaluation/trial version of Rational® Performance Tester, a software load and performance testing solution for teams concerned about the scalability of their Web applications. more>

Rational Functional Tester Download: IBM Rational Functional Tester is an advanced, automated functional and regression testing tool for testers and GUI developers who need superior control for testing Java, VS.NET, and Web-based applications. Download a free evaluation copy of Rational Test Manager (TestManager) here. more>

Manual Testing: manual software testing is easier with Rational Manual Tester from IBM. Download IBM Manual Tester to improve your software testing procedures. more>

Free IBM Technical Briefings in North America: Check out IBM's free technical briefings available in North America and around the world. Improve your software development process with free training from IBM. more>

IBM Technical Briefings, Events, and Webcasts: IBM is continually offering new webcasts, technical briefings, and events to get you up-to-date with the latest software technologies and products. Stay ahead of the pack and check out IBM's technical education offerings today. more>

Rational Rose Developer for Visual Studio is a full visual modeling environment based on the UML 1.x standard. It includes code generation support for the Visual C++® and Visual Basic® 6 languages. You can generate Visual C++ or Visual Basic code from your models to jump-start the development process and support round-trip engineering activities. more>

Users can now evaluate Rational Software Architect V7.0 without installing or configuring it on your own system! IBM Rational Software Architect is an advanced model-driven development and static analysis tool for software architects and model-driven developers who are creating SOA, J2EE and portal applications more>

Software Testing Life Cycle: This Software Testing Survival Guide from IBM includes resources you can use to improve your software validation lifecycle. Make your software more usable, reliable, and scalable. more>

Learn how you can use IBM Rational Performance Tester to find and analyze software performance bottlenecks. See how you can easily create and run performance tests without writing any code. more>

IBM Rational Build Forge adds support for IBM System i and IBM System z platforms. See examples of how you can incorporate System i and System z platforms into your automated software processes including software build and release management. more>