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Evaluate: Rational Business Developer

IBM® Rational® Business Developer is designed to meet the needs of business developers, providing a simplified, highly productive, and comprehensive development environment for the EGL language. It includes tools to develop, test, and debug EGL applications and services that can be generated as Java™ or COBOL and deployed to various application servers, such as WebSphere Application Server, and enterprise environments on System z and Power Systems. EGL also simplifies development of open standards-based Web 2.0 style applications, thus providing a common language across both client and server.

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* IBM Installation Manager is about 90MB. The size of the trial code itself and the download time required varies according to the product components you select. The estimated download time using Download Director over a 1.5Mbps connection is approximately 4 hours and 40 minutes, significantly less when using Installation Manager.

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  • Improvements to the Rich UI visual editor, including new drag and drop capabilities to instantly create UI forms and data grids
  • New set of business-oriented widgets that utilize the popular Dojo open source library
  • Support for conditional break points and watch expressions in the EGL debugger
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