IBM Rational tools provide an array of visual construction tools that enable you to speedily build and deliver high quality J2EE and Web applications while allowing you to focus on the fun of creativity. This webcast will focus on some key rapid delivery capabilities, including automation and streamlining using Patterns and Transformations with UML, graphical visual editors and tools to quickly build, test, deploy to WebSphere and debug asynchronous secure web services and applications. more>

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>

This webcast provides an overview of the new Feature Pack for Web 2.0 Beta for WebSphere Application Server 6.0, 6.1 and WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0. The feature pack provides basic infrastructure features for creating rich user experiences and dynamic web applications with Ajax. 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 to configure and invoke Web services for WebSphere Customer Center in a Web application. This tutorial shows you how to use Web services with security and global transactions and provides a sample Web services client for you to download. more>

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is an entry-level enterprise search software solution that is ready for primetime on your company's intranet. Using OmniFind, you can index your intranet, offering employees a robust and easy search solution so they can find what they're looking for promptly. Learn how to use the OmniFind features, take advantage of its APIs, and integrate them into your own Web applications. more>

In this webcast, you'll get an introduction to the eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) features of WebSphere Extended Deployment and the common architectural traits required by XTP applications. See how WebSphere Extended Deployment's ObjectGrid feature provides a state-of-the-art infrastructure for hosting XTP applications. 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>

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>

Business Process Workflow Management Software: IBM WebSphere MQ is the market-leadingbusiness integration software that connects virtually all your business software together, forming one efficient enterprise by providing an open, scalable, industrial-strength messaging backbone. Download a free trial version of IBM WebSphere MQ V6.0 for your company’s business process workflow management. more>

Business Process Simulation Software: WebSphere Business Integration Modeler, built on the Eclipse development platform, gives business professionals the tools they need to design, test, improve and communicate complex business processes. Download a free trial version of IBM’s WebSphere business process simulation software. 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>

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>

In this case study, see how IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational ClearQuest are being used in an agile development environment. It shows how you can have the flexibility and functionality you need in your change management and configuration management tools while keeping it lightweight and nimble. more>

Learn to configure basic authentication for web service security. Then test it with a web service client deployed in the WebSphere Test Environment. Do it all without writing any code. more>

See how you can add developerWorks information to your website with RSS. Paste a few lines of code into your website to easily add an IBM developerWorks RSS feed to your website. more>

Convert Business Process Model Into UML Activity Diagram: Learn to convert a business process model in WebSphere Business Modeler into a UML activity diagram in Rational Software Architect. The conversion is simplified by sharing an Eclipse shell between WB Modeler and Rational Software Architect. more>