Rational Business Developer


Rational Business Developer provides a workbench for Enterprise Generation Language development, an end-to-end rapid development approach.

Overview

Rational Business Developer is an Integrated development environment developed by the IBM Rational Software division that provides Eclipse based tools for development of cross platform applications and services using EGL.

Target platforms

EGL is a business oriented programming language which can be learned by programmers of any background and that shields them from the technical interfaces of systems and middleware allowing them to focus on building business functionality. EGL programs or services are written, tested and debugged at the EGL source level, and once they are satisfactorily functionally tested they can be generated into either COBOL or Java code for compilation and deployment to the following target runtime environments:
Rational Business Developer enables development of browser based applications, business services, graphical user interface applications, batch applications and reports that access and manipulate data stored and managed in any relational database and file system that runs on the supported target platforms.

Integration with existing IDEs

Rational Business Developer can install as a standalone product or jointly with any of the following IBM Rational products
These extend the base programming workbench and tools offered by these products with EGL cross platform rapid development tools. The tools include:
The benefits of using Rational Business Developer include: