WebSphere Development Studio Client

IBM^® WebSphere^® Development Studio Client for iSeries™ is a set of workstation development tools for creating, testing, deploying, and maintaining traditional and e-business applications for your iSeries server. WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries is included with the compiler-based server product, WebSphere Development Studio.

WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries is designed to help you accomplish three primary programming goals:

Develop and maintain iSeries applications
Create Web front ends to iSeries business logic
Create GUI front ends to iSeries business logic

WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries inherits Web and Java™ development capabilities from WebSphere Studio Site Developer, V5.0 that makes it easy to create, test, deploy, and maintain sophisticated e-business applications with little Java, Web, or Web-service programming. It includes the following workstation components (WebSphere Development Tools for iSeries):

WebFacing Tool
WebSphere Studio for iSeries
VisualAge^® for Java
CoOperative Development Environment/400
VisualAge RPG

Note: The WebSphere Development Studio Client product contains workstation tools only. If you are also interested in the server components (including compilers), consider WebSphere Development Studio, which includes workstation licenses of WebSphere Development Studio Client. If you order WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries, the iSeries server product, you are also entitled to receive WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries, the client product.

WebSphere Development Studio Client is Eclipse-based, and you install and run the product on your local workstation. You use WebSphere Development Studio Client in the workbench integrated development environment.

For more information, go to the WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries home page Link outside Information Center .

For documentation, go to the WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries library Link outside Information Center .

For more information on the IBM WebFacing Tool, go to the IBM WebFacing Tool home page Link outside Information Center and IBM WebFacing Tool Application Development Roadmap .