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 WDSC debugger using Service Entry Points
• Websphere Application Server (WAS) management tools
• Rational Business Developer Extension V7.0 EGL tooling

Plug-Ins

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

A number of vendors have plug-ins for their specific product, and there are some open-source plug-ins available. See WDSC/Plugin.

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