IBM Integrates Development
IBM
has announced its “Atlantic” tool kit for the Rational Software
Development Platform (SDP). This
set of tools is aimed at providing greatly increased integration
both to developers and to others involved in the specification,
creation, testing, implementation, and management of software,
providing more automation into this business process.
Based
on the Eclipse platform, which IBM helped to develop and is now a
major sponsor of, Atlantic integrates web services, modeling,
testing, defect management, requirements management, web application
development, and web services development.
It incorporates support for JavaServer faces and UML 2.0.
This makes it a full application life-cycle management (ALM)
platform, like the next release of Microsoft’s Visual Studio, but
more than six months’ ahead of Microsoft’s expected mid-2005
release date.
IBM
has also introduced its "Ready for IBM Rational software"
Program for Business Partners that allows independent ISVs to
validate the integration between their tools and tools in the IBM
SDP. Ready for Rational
plug-ins are based on the Eclipse framework and help organizations
automate and integrate the core business process of software
development.
The
Rational SDP will be available in December.
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