WebSphere Application Server supports assembly tools that you can use to develop, assemble, and deploy J2EE modules.
Supported assembly tools include the following:
The Application Server Toolkit is available in your WebSphere Application Server disc package. Rational Application Developer is available only on a trial basis. The Trial download for Rational Application Developer is available at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rad/.
Although this information center refers to the Application Server Toolkit and Rational developer products as the assembly tools, you can use the products to do more than assemble modules. Rational Application Developer is an integrated development environment that provides development, testing, assembly and deployment capabilities. However, topics on application assembly in this information center focus on assembling J2EE modules using the J2EE Perspective of the assembly tools. Each assembly tool provides extensive online documentation; the topics on application assembly in this information center supplement that documentation. The Application Server Toolkit information center is available with this information center.
AST is not supported on the Windows 2008 operating system.