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Jane Fung (Author), Christina Lau (Author), Ellen McKay (Author), Valentina Birsan (Author), Colin Yu (Author), Joe Winchester (Author), Dr. Dr. Gili Mendel (Author), Gary Flood (Author), Peter Walker (Author), Timothy deBoer (Author), Yen Lu (Author), James Hunter (Author), Sridhar Iyengar (Foreword)
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1931182221 978-1931182225 June 1, 2005
IBM Rational Application Developer is a very important tool for developers, but it is also a complex product. An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer, A Guided Tour is designed to jumpstart the learning process with its focus on interactive hands-on learning through a wide variety of useful, practical, end-to-end tutorials.

Hands-on exercises and in-depth explanations form chapter "modules" within the book, thereby providing a complete step-by-step guide to each specific topic while allowing readers to pick and choose which tutorials they want (or need) to study without necessarily going in chapter order. And, because of its modular structure, each tutorial's sample code is independent of any earlier tutorials, freeing readers to skip from tutorial to tutorial, based on their specific knowledge requirements. Because of this design, this book continues to be a useful reference as a reader's "need to know" increases.

Using this book's method, readers quickly learn IBM Rational Application Developer—regardless of their previous level of experience or inexperience. For beginners, there are tutorials that teach how to create Web, EJB, JMS, and Web Services applications using Rational Application Developer. For the more advanced readers, there are tutorials on security, publishing, testing, team development, profiling, and logging. Written to appeal to as broad an audience as possible, the tutorials run on common databases, including IBM Cloudscape, IBM DB2® Universal Database, Microsoft® SQL Server, Sybase® Enterprise Systems, and Oracle® Database.

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The authors are all members of the IBM Rational team. They are in various development and consulting teams of IBM Rational products, including application development tools, deployment and publishing tools, documentation, J2EE technology, profiling and logging tools, Web Service tools and Visual Editor for Java. They have extensive hands-on experience with IBM Rational Application Developer and its predecessor, WebSphere® Studio Application Developer. Together, they have over 100 years of experience at IBM in three different countries and hold dozens of patents.

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  • Paperback: 650 pages
  • Publisher: Mc Press (June 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1931182221
  • ISBN-13: 978-1931182225
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars good tutorials on RAD, August 23, 2005
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This review is from: An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer: A Guided Tour (Ibm Illustrated Guide Series) (Paperback)
"An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer - A Guided Tour" is a good beginners book. The book does not assume you know J2EE. For example, it walks you through what a Servlet is. Each chapter begins with an overview of the technology, which is even more useful for advanced topics like JMS.

The authors walk you through tutorials for the common RAD tasks. If you are already using WSAD, some of the tutorials are overkill. However, the advanced ones are still useful. The authors also provide tips of things that would be good to experiment with. I also found the example projects on CD to be extremely useful.

This IBM Press book doesn't contain much IBM slant. The book uses many common databases including db2, Oracle and SQL Server in each example. Tons of screenshots and code snippets are provided. The authors provide tips on the tool throughout that make you a more efficient developer.

Each chapter stands alone, making the book a good one to read before you try out a new part of RAD. I recommend this book to people new to the WSAD/RAD family of tools or those who want a detailed walkthrough of how to create a basic application in new technologies.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars powerful development of Java applications under WebSphere, November 10, 2005
This review is from: An Introduction to IBM Rational Application Developer: A Guided Tour (Ibm Illustrated Guide Series) (Paperback)
The RAD is a powerful way to develop Java applications for use in WebSphere. The authors presuppose prior knowledge of Java on your part. So that when they give examples of Java code, they do not have to go into a detailed explanation of the elementary syntax within these.

In the J2EE world, matters have grown to the extent that there is now a huge amount of classes and applications that one can learn. A formidable commitment. What the text shows is how to do many of these tasks under RAD for WebSphere. From a simple developing of a standalone Java application to doing servlet and Java Server Pages web development. RAD has an easy user interface, with convenient helper capabilities that reduces some of the tedious burden. Like being able to quickly compile and run a program that consists of several classes.

If you have already used Eclipse, the good news is that RAD derives from Eclipse 3. And RAD supports what is still the latest version of J2EE - 1.4. (Version 1.5 has not yet been officially released.)

The book also explains more advanced Java topics. As in Web Services, a potentially promising new field. It turns out to be pretty easy to build and publish a Web Service with RAD. Takes a lot of the mystique out of what it means to write your own Web Service. This alone can be a big plus for the book, to some of you.

Database interactions are also a practical part of many websites. I fully expected that the text would only deal with hooking to DB2. This is an IBM Press book, after all, and the authors hail from IBM. But surprisingly and commendably, the book shows how to connect to 5 databases - DB2, Cloudscape (which is from IBM), Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and Oracle. A pragmatic recognition that not everyone uses DB2. The various database examples may also help you develop database analysis code that is as independent of the specific database as possible.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great startup material for using IBM Rational Application Developer, July 21, 2005
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Finally! A book that provides a starting point for learning about RAD.
RAD just provides so much for a user that its daunting to even know where to begin. All the tooling is great for advanced users but for beginners, we need help.

The book provides some useful starting material to become more familiar with the most important aspects of RAD. Its approach for delivering samples is different but it works.

I would recommend this book for beginners but for those who want to learn more advanced concepts, you will need to look elsewhere.

You have to start somewhere so this book will be a great benefit.
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