Compatible software for Rational Application Developer

For a list of compatible hardware and software for Rational® Application Developer, see the Rational Application Developer System Requirements List.

For a list of common software products that are compatible with Rational Application Developer see:

Application servers

Rational Application Developer supports WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Profile. The Liberty Profile server is a lightweight profile of the application server for web, Web 2.0, mobile, and OSGi applications. It is designed to be small in size, simple to configure, and fast to restart. Use this server when you are building applications that do not require the full Java™ EE environment of traditional enterprise application server profiles.

The application server that is commonly used with Rational Application Developer is WebSphere Application Server, which is tightly integrated with the workbench. To test, run, and debug applications on the server, the workbench contains tools such as Run On Server. The following features are available from within the workbench:

Specifying server-specific configurations such as extensions and bindings to a WebSphere Application Server
Starting tools from WebSphere Application Server, such as the administrative console and the Profile Management Tool
Developing, running, and debugging administrative scripts against the application server

To discover more tools for WebSphere Application Server that are integrated with the IBM® Rational Software Delivery Platform, see the product help.

If you installed WebSphere Application Server when you installed Rational Application Developer, remember that WebSphere Application Server is a separate product from the Rational Application Developer workbench. As a result, WebSphere Application Server or any other application server that you integrate with this workbench usually has a different set of supported hardware and software. To determine which hardware and software are supported for a particular application server, see the publications for that server. For example, if the application server is WebSphere Application Server, see System Requirements for the WebSphere Application Server.

You can create the following types of WebSphere Application Servers:

Stand-alone (unmanaged) server: A node that is defined in the cell of a WebSphere Application Server topology that does not run a node agent to manage its process
Federated (managed) server: A server that runs a node agent to manage its process

Rational Application Developer does not support the tools for a federated (managed) WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environment. The Rational Application Developer workbench does not support connections to the deployment manager, and it does not support publishing to clusters or federated nodes. However, there is support for stand-alone (unmanaged) WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment; you can test, run, and debug applications from the workbench to a stand-alone (unmanaged) application server. For both managed and unmanaged WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, you can continue to run the Profile Management Tool from within the workbench to create and augment profiles.

Server adapters for particular servers are included in Rational Application Developer from the Web Tools Platform based on Eclipse technology. You can also download additional server adapters to the workbench: Open the Servers view, right-click; then click New. In the New Server wizard, click Download additional server adapters.

Databases

If you connect to a database directly from the Rational Application Developer workbench, the databases listed in the Rational Application Developer System Requirements List are compatible with the workbench. However, if you connect to a database using an application server, the server usually has a different set of supported databases. To determine which databases are supported for a particular application server, see the publications for that server. For example, if the server is WebSphere Application Server, see the Databases and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Drivers sections of System Requirements for WebSphere Application Server.

Source configuration management

The following source configuration management (SCM) systems are commonly used with Rational Application Developer:

Rational ClearCase®
Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
Rational Team Concert™

You can integrate other source configuration management repositories with the Rational Application Developer workbench through software configuration management (SCM) team adapters. If you want to work with another SCM provider, use the SCM team adapters for commercial SCM products that are provided by the vendors of those products. For more information about SCM products and team adapters provided by the Eclipse open source community, go to http://www.eclipse.org. You can access the websites of the SCM product vendors to download the SCM team adapter of your choice. IBM does not endorse or provide a warranty for these adapters. For support, or further information, contact the SCM product vendor directly.

External plug-ins

You can integrate plug-ins from the Eclipse open source community into the Rational Application Developer workbench. IBM does not provide support for the integration of plug-ins from other sources.

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