Category:Rational Developer

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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...

Additionally, it contains...

WDSC has been superseded in i5/OS V6R1 by IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform for System i WDSC is still orderable in i5/OS V6R1, so it apparently will still run and be supported by IBM for that release.

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.

Version history

This version history needs review!

i5/OS version Tool name Tool version Release date
V3R1 ADTS CS/400 V3R1?
V3R2 ADTS CS/400 V3R2
V3R7 ADTS CS/400 V3R7 (unchanged from V3R6?) 1995?
V4R1 ADTS CS/400 V3R7 (unchanged from V3R6?) 1996?
V4R2 ADTS CS/400 V4R2 1997?
V4R3 ADTS CS/400 V4R2 1997?
V4R4 ADTS CS/400 V4R4 1999?
V4R5 ADTS CS/400 V4R5 2000?
V5R1 WDS V5.0 January 2003
V5R2 WDS V5.0, 5.1 January 2003
V5R3 WDS V6.0 May 2004
V5R4 WDSCi 7.0 January 2006
V6R1 RDi 7.1 (no better link?) January 2008

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