AUDIENCE:   Developers, Analysts, and anyone else who has to work with IBM's Rational Application Developer (RAD). PREREQUISITES:   A good understanding of J2SE APIs and OO principles in Java. Attending our Java Programming and XML Intro courses would provide suitable background. DURATION:   3 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   On completion of the course, delegates will be able to: - Appreciate the possibilities of RAD as IDE for the development of all the elements in a J2EE environment. - Describe the different perspectives, views and editors of RAD. - Discuss the fundamentals of Java development using RAD, including the development of GUIs with the Visual Editor for Java. - Describe the fundamentals of web application development using RAD by means of Page Designer, HTML, cascading style sheets, servlets and JSPs. - Understand the tools and wizards for manipulating EJB, XML, RDBMS, web services, etc. using RAD. - Describe the integration of RAD with the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) test environment. - Understand team development. COURSE CONTENT:   Rational Application Developer (RAD) History and overview of the Rational development platform; introduction to development tools; navigation in the workbench: perspectives, views, editors; debugging: incremental compilation, code import and export. Java development use of the different Java perspectives and editors; testing and debugging; development of GUI using the Visual Editor; JUnit testing; using UML, Visual Editor. Database development principles of database access; JDBC; database connections; database servers; database access from Java and web applications; SQLJ support. Web application development page designer; HTML; cascading style sheets; servlets and JavaServer Pages; testing and debugging; Struts tools; JavaServer Face (JSF) tools. XML defining, generating, manipulating the different XML formats (XML, DTD, XSD, ...); XSL, XSLT (and debugging), Xpath. EJB development development of Enterprise Java Beans; database connectivity;· setting up the server. Team Development team development process; repository management; editions and versions; CVS or ClearCase LT DB07/01