This topic describes obtaining an integrated development environment (IDE). Use Rational products from IBM to design, construct, and manage changes to applications for deployment on your WebSphere Application Server products.
Steps for this task (dependent on configuration)
Rational Web Developer is included with your purchase of WebSphere Application Server-Express. You can launch the Rational Web Developer installation from the Launch Pad application or by other means, as described in this topic.
The topic includes ideas for how to incorporate the development environment and Express server into your topology. The topic helps you decide such things as setting up a simple, single machine test environment, or an integrated test environment.
See also Roadmap for installing Rational Web Developer for instructions about installing the development environment.
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Roadmap for installing Rational Web Developer