help with ide supporting was

Question

Hello all can any one tell me which IDE i can use to do the development towards WAS 7.0. plz help me out with the answer very soon. i have checked 4 Netbeans6.5 beta and it does not have the support for it. Also in the MyEclipse Blue Edition myeclipseide.com/blue.php. it is given Compatible with WebSphere 5.x, 6.0, 6.1, 7 but in http://www.myeclipseide.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=98487 it is given "WebSphere Application Server V7.0 is not supported by MyEclipse at the moment. Thats the reasons you guys are running into issues."

Any1 plz help me out with this issue ASAP

Answer 1

If you want proper support for WAS, you should be using the Rational toolset. RAD/RSA and their brethren are optimized for Websphere (as you'd expect given they're both from IBM).

You can do it with baseline Eclipse (I'd use the "real" Eclipse rather than myeclipse) but the easiest set up will be with Rational. You may not want to spend the money however.

It's well worth the cost, since it comes bundled with WAS test environments and can deploy automatically to other WAS instances (for example, system test environments).

RAD 7.5 supports WAS 7 so I'd go for that one. RAD 7 only supports up to WAS 6.1.

Answer 2

IBM Rational Application Developer 7.5