Rational has released three editions of the XDE tool: one that supports Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tools suite, another that supports IBM's WebSphere Studio Java development tool, and a third that combines both the Java and .Net editions.
The new WebSphere version supports web services technologies based on the latest Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard. The application server and its companion development toolset, WebSphere Studio Version 5, is geared toward providing the...
So XDE plugs directly into the IBM WebSphere tool products so it operates within IBM's IDE, offering a single platform for design and code construction. Most industry watchers know IBM is ending the year with a multibillion dollar acquisition of a...
However, a key reason to present a unified IDE is to give Java developers a more attractive alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tool, which has broad third-party support. In a move that has exposed a growing schism in the Java community...
This summer, Borland plans to release Janeva, an application that lets corporate developers use Microsoft tools to build Windows applications that work with software written to non-Microsoft development models, including Java 2 Enterprise Edition...
The company said on Monday that it released a test edition of IBM's WebSphere Micro Environment that includes support for Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), a set of programming tools for portable devices. Palm said earlier this year that it would use...