Introducing Development Studio and Development Studio Client

Development Studio Client is the ideal set of workstation development tools for creating, testing, deploying and maintaining traditional and e-business applications for your iSeries server. Development Studio Client is included with the compiler-based server product, WebSphere Development Studio. The following diagram illustrates the interaction between host and client tools:
WebSphere Development Studio

Development Studio Client is designed to help you:

  1. Develop and maintain iSeries applications using the Remote System Explorer.
  2. Develop Web-enabled front-ends to iSeries business logic.
  3. Create GUI front-ends to iSeries business logic.

Both Development Studio Client and Development Studio Client Advanced Edition are built on the Rational Software Development Platform. This platform offers a fresh look and feel for the Eclipse workbench, and helps make it easier for you to build, integrate, and extend your applications. The Rational Software Development Platform offers a tutorials gallery and a samples gallery, to help you get up and running with the product as quickly as possible. The platform also offers user roles, which you can select from bottom-right corner of the Welcome view, (and from Window > Preferences > Workbench > Capabilities) that customize and simplify the user interface according to your programming role. These are just some of the new features provided in the Rational Software Development Platform.

The product comes in two editions for iSeries programmers. Both editions of the product are packaged with an additional base Rational product:

You have reviewed the goals of the product and the product editions and you are ready to begin Introducing iSeries Application Development Tools.