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Explore the innovations provided by IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization software development tools, their broad range of functionality and their use throughout the entire software development process.

Audience

IT managers, practitioners

Objectives

• Understand the breadth and depth of Rational Enterprise Modernization software development tools, how well they're integrated, and how easy they are to use.
  
  
• Get an overview of Web 2.0 in terms of economic, community, and technology issues for your company.
  
  
• Participate in hands-on exercises to experience various development steps in the application lifecycle and to create and integrate Web 2.0 applications with Enterprise Generation Language (EGL).
  

Duration

1 day

Description

Today your company may be facing demands for new products and services, including self-service sites and integration with business partner and third party applications. Competitive factors are most often driving these new requirements. Frequently an IT organization’s ability to rapidly respond to these new business challenges is severely limited by the current architecture and years of evolution of existing applications.

To adopt an effective application modernization approach you must first overcome some of the challenges affecting your IT organization, which can include:

• Building IT delivery solutions needed to create and integrate existing applications with Web 2.0 interfaces
• Enabling existing and new IT staff to leverage modern architectures and technologies
• Reducing application development silos by enhancing team collaboration and productivity with modern tools
• Redirecting some application maintenance dollars from legacy applications to new development

Modern software development tools can help enable your development team to extend or modularize current applications for reuse in creating new services and web applications. As you examine these approaches one should also consider the social and business impact of Web 2.0 and Rich User Interface implementations on your application development process.

Demos

See demos and participate in hands-on exercises using the following software tools:

• Rational Developer for IBM i
• Rational Developer for IBM i for SOA Construction with EGL
• Rational Host Access Transformation Services
• Rational Team Concert for IBM i
• Rational EGL Rich UI technology preview

Downloads

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Resources

• Find technical developer content and resources for IBM Rational Developer for System i.
  
  
• Find resources for Web 2.0, Ajax, wikis, PHP, mashups, and other Web projects on developerWorks.
  
  
• Learn how Rational Business Developer helps build applications in EGL, IBM's newest business language.
  
  

• Download IBM product evaluation versions and get your hands on application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.
  
  
• The SOA Sandbox is an excellent resource for education on SOA and real-world experience using IBM SOA software.

• Check out developerWorks blogs and get involved in the developerWorks community.