Category:Rational Developer

Rational Developer, an acronym for WebSphere Development Studio Client for System i, is a robust, Windows-based, integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open source Eclipse project that is customized for System i developers.

WDSC has support for editing various types of files...

• RPG (and variants)
• CL
• Java
• HTML
• JSP

Additionally, it contains...

• An interactive debugger using Service Entry Points
• Websphere Application Server (WAS) managment tools

Plug-In's

WDSC supports a similar plug-in mechanism to Eclipse, with some modifications to support the RSE.

A number of vendors have plug-in's for their specific product, and there are some open-source plug-in's available.

In general, most plug-in's designed for Eclipse 3.x will work fine in WDSC.