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Explore the innovation of open solutions available from IBM®and see the power and flexibility of an open community development environment. Hear discussions on IBM's open source strategy, an "open computing" environment and its components, as well as an in-depth discussion of IBM's open community development tools. This briefing provides details on the features and functions of Eclipse, DB2® Express-C, and WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition and their integration for a robust development environment to create and deploy Web applications.

Audience

Academic users, programmers, and practitioners

Duration

Half day

Description

Today open source development tools based on open standards such as Eclipse, Apache Tomcat, and Apache Geronimo provide an attractive, robust, free of charge development environment for creating and deploying Web applications. However, an alternative development environment has emerged that embraces the innovation of the open source development model while providing the stability of commercial development tools.

Open community development tools from IBM are based on the same open standards as open source tools while providing enhanced functional capabilities and broader platform support. These tools provide greater flexibility and choice for application developers by providing a free of charge development environment or an optional supported environment for a fee. An open community development environment with Eclipse (with optional IBM Rational Elite Support), WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (based on Apache Geronimo), and DB2 Express C can provide a robust, stable, supported development environment.

This briefing explores the innovation of open solutions available from IBM and illustrates the power and flexibility of an open community development environment.

Hear information or see demos for the following solutions:

• Linux base openSUSE 10.2
• DB2 Express-C
• WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
• Eclipse with IBM Rational Elite Support for Eclipse

While the briefing uses product demonstrations to highlight the features and functions of the open community stack, an optional workshop provides a hands-on experience to "build" the open community development environment on openSUSE 10.2. This workshop will focus on two primary groups of developers:

• Academic users, including professors who want to tailor these tools for their students.
• Programmers who want to know and use open source tools to meet their needs.

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Resources

• Learn more about Rational Application Developer.
  
  
• Find information for WebSphere Application Server Community Edition on developerWorks.
  
  
• Learn more about DB2 Express-C 9.

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