Accelerate Web and SOA development with IBM Rational Business Developer

Mr. Reginaldo W Barosa (rbarosa@us.ibm.com), Executive IT Specialist, IBM

25 Feb 2008

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This article shows you how to build a simple Web service using IBM® Rational® Business Developer extension (RBDe). Rational Business Developer leverages EGL, IBM’s newest business language. It helps developers create modern Web and SOA applications for the System z platform without the developer having to know the underlying middleware or platform technologies

IBM Rational Business Developer software helps IT organizations build innovative IT solutions while controlling costs, reducing application backlogs and improving flexibility and responsiveness to the business. Using Rational Business Developer, you can achieve increased levels of application development productivity and enable business-savvy developers to exploit emerging computing technologies to fulfill new and changing business requirements with minimal retraining costs and time. Rational Business Developer allows you to easily reuse and leverage valuable existing IT assets. You will learn how to create, deploy and test Web services using a simple and platform neutral business language “EGL” that hides all the underlying technical complexity allowing you to focus on the business problem at hand.

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About the contributor

		Reginaldo W. Barosa is an IBM Executive IT Specialist. He provides sales support, helping customers with enterprise modernization solutions and development tools, such as Rational Developer for System z. Before joining IBM U.S. more than seven years ago, Reginaldo worked for 27 years for IBM Brazil. He has co-authored IBM Redbooks and has written two books, as well as other articles and tutorials for IBM developerWorks. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Instituto Maua de Tecnologia, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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