Material ID: GC23-6210-00
1.0 About this release
1.1 New in this release
2.0 Installation information
2.1 Hardware requirements
2.2 Software requirements
3.0 Known limitations, problems, and workarounds
4.0 IBM Rational Software Support
5.0 Notices and trademarks
You can use IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software to quickly design, develop, analyze, test, profile, and deploy high-quality Web, service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE, and portal applications.
Built on Eclipse 3.2.1, an extensible platform for constructing and integrating software development tools, Rational Application Developer is part of the Rational Software Development Platform series of products.
Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software, Version 7.0 contains new features and enhancements and fixes to Version 6.x releases.
The latest version of this document is available at http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/v7/rad/70/docs/readme/readme.html.
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This release of Rational Application Developer contains enhancements to version 6.x releases and new features, including:
For information about installing Rational Application Developer Version 7.0, including hardware and software requirements, see the Rational Application Developer Installation Guide (install.html) which can be viewed from the installation launchpad. This file is also stored in the documentation directory on the first product CD.
The latest version of Installation Guide is available at http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/v7/rad/70/docs/install_instruction/install.html
For updated documentation on commands for running Installation Manager in silent mode, refer to the Installation Manager online help.
Note the following changes and corrections that might not be available in the translated version of the Installation Guide:
- The instructions for extracting the Packaging Utility are incorrect in translated versions of the Installation Guide. Correct instructions are available in the Packaging Utility limitations, known problems, and workarounds file.
- Instructions for silently installing the Installation Manager are not available in translated versions of the Installation Guide. Correct instructions are available in the Installation Manager limitations, known problems, and workarounds file.
- To install Crystal Reports Server on Linux, you must use a non-root user ID.
- The installation guide lists incorrect paths for the default shared resources directory and the default directory for the package group. The correct default directories are:
- For the shared resources directory, the default locations are C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP70Shared on Windows and /opt/IBM/SDP70Shared on Linux.
- For a new package group, the default locations are C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP70 on Windows and /opt/IBM/SDP70 on Linux.
- When starting an installation of WebSphere Portal version 5.1.0.x test environment on Linux from the electronic image, you might receive a ":bad interpreter : no such file or directory" error. To start the installation successfully, change to the directory of the setup disk image and then run the following command: dos2unix install.sh -W dependency.useValidation=false
For information about hardware requirements for installing Rational Application Developer, see the Installation Guide.
For information about software and browser requirements for installing Rational Application Developer, see the Installation Guide.
Note the following updates which might not appear in translated versions:
- To extend an existing Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), you must have Eclipse version 3.2.1 with the latest updates from eclipse.org.
- If you use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Version 9, then you must have the IBM JRE 1.5 (SR3) installed before you can extend an existing Eclipse IDE.
- The launchpad does not support Mozilla 1.6; if your browser is Mozilla, you need version 1.7 or higher to run the launchpad.
These release notes include release-specific information, such as such as known limitations, problems and workarounds that were not available until after the product documentation was finalized.
- Agent controller
- Compare/merge
- Crystal Reports Toolkit
- Data tools
- EJB mapping tools
- IBM Installation Manager
- J2EE connector (J2C) tools
- J2EE and Web debug tools
- J2EE tools
- JavaServer Faces
- Java domain modeling
- JET authoring
- Generic log adapter
- Log and trace analyser
- Packaging Utility
- Portal and portlet tools
- Rational ClearCase server
- Rational Unified Process (RUP)
- Reusable Asset Specification support
- Software Development Platform core
- Struts tools
- Struts portlet
- Testing and publishing (server) tools
- Transformation authoring
- UML Modeler
- UML modeling and visualization
- User assistance
- Web service tools
- Web Services
- WebSphere Application Server Express 5.1.1
- WebSphere Application Server 6.1
- WebSphere Community Edition
- Web tools (Web diagram editor, page designer, Web site designer)
- XML transformations
- XML visual editor
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For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you will need when you require support, read the IBM Software Support Handbook.
For FAQs, lists of known problems and fixes, and other support information, visit the product support page for Rational Application Developer at www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application/support/index.html.
For product news, events, support, and other information, see the Rational Application Developer home page at www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application/.
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- Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
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