Colette Burrus

In Building Applications with IBM WebSphere Studio and JavaBeans, my coauthor, Steph Parkin, and I take you on a guided tour of developing applications with the WebSphere Studio Visual Editor for Java and JavaBeans. With the Visual Editor, new with WebSphere Studio Version 5, you'll see how quick and easy it is to construct graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and use JavaBeans to build applications. This article gives you an introduction to the Visual Editor and shows examples of some of the applications you'll build with it when you follow the guided tour. Visual Editor for Java The Visual Editor works very much like other visual design tools, such as VisualAge for Java's Visual Composition Editor. As you can see in Figure 1, the editor itself is composed of three parts: a palette of beans along the left edge of the window, a design surface where you visually work with... (more)

Developing SOA Web Services for Web Applications With Rational Developer

Our latest book, Developing Web Services for Web Applications, takes you on a guided tour of developing and using Web Services with Rational Developer and WebSphere. This article, an extract from the book, gives you an introduction to the basic steps to create and use a simple Web Service in Rational Developer, and describes what you’ll learn when you follow the guided tour. To follow along with the steps in the book, you need IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0. You also need either IBM Rational Web Developer 6.0 or IBM Rational Application Developer 6.0. Application Deve... (more)