IBM WebSphere

• Rich page editing functions
• Support for Java Server Page (JSP) tags
• A team environment to check in/check out files
• Advanced wizards to create database applications
• Application Server 4.0 Advanced Single Server Edition
• Integration with VisualAge for Java 4.0.

The Advanced Edition is aimed at professional Web developers in larger teams developing dynamic Web applications. Advanced Edition adds the following features to Professional Edition:

• Personalisation tools (rules definition,user profile and content definition)
• Page Detailer to monitor and analyse Web-based transactions
• Site Control Management (SCM) integration feature to enable version control
• Remote debugging of JSP pages running on the WebSphere Application Server.

IBM WebSphere - Features

WebSphere Studio Professional Edition

WebSphere Studio provides cross-platform Web and Java standards supported by the WebSphere Application Server platform.

Features include:

• Rich page editing functions
• Support for Java Server Page (JSP) tags
• A team environment to check in/check out files
• Advanced wizards to create database applications
• Application Server 4.0 Advanced Single Server Edition
• Integration with VisualAge for Java 4.0
• Built-in support for pervasive computing devices including handheld, wireless and voice devices
• Built-in support for the creation, management and deployment of WML, VXML and Compact HTML for wireless devices
• Built in WebSphere Transcoding Publisher internal annotation support from Page Designer to add annotation tags to HTML and JSPs
• Bi-directional Language support for creating Hebrew and Arabic page content using Page Designer
• Automatic generation of page-at-a-time navigation for large result sets
• Integration and ease of use of Page Designer, a visual JSP/HTML layout tool
• Development time Windows 2000 support, 98, ME and NT 4.0 support and support for WebSphere Application Server
• Support to publish to the Web Application structure of WebSphere Application Server
• XML creation tools
• A trial copy of Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Freehand and Director and Studio Workbench integration that allows these tools to be launched from the Workbench environment
• A team-enabled Web project workbench environment for organising and managing Web development projects
• An integrated visual page designer based on WebSphere Homepage Builder technology to create JavaServer Pages (JSPs) and HTML pages with round-trip raw edit ability
• Wizards for creating JavaBeans, database queries and Java servlets
• An integrated applet designer
• A Web art designer to create masthead images, buttons and other graphics
• An animated GIF designer
• Web Service Creation and Consumption Wizards to develop, describe and deploy Web services
• HotMedia aJava-based rich media solution that allows for streaming video, audio synchronisation with images, panoramas and 3D (VRML) without requiring a plugin for security conscious environments
• JSP 1.1 support for adding custom tags from your tag libraries to JSPs using Page Designer
• Servlet 2.2 support to create and publish Web Application Archive files directly from the Studio workbench
• Continued Pervasive support by including IBM's WebSphere Everyplace Suite (WES) SDK allowing a user to sample location based services using Location Based Services Bean (LBS), PUSH API and a WAP emulator
• Create JSP and HTML fragments for portlets with Studio's Page Designer, a new JAR creation wizard and IBM's WebSphere Portal Server 1.2

Language Support:

• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Traditional Chinese
• Simplified Chinese
• Korean
• Japanese.

System Requirements

• Intel Pentium class PC
• 500 MB of free disk space
• CD-ROM drive
• 96 MB of memory
• VGA or better video adapter, configured for at least 256 colours
• Microsoft Windows 98, NT Workstation, Server v4.0 with Service Pack 3, 2000 Professional, Server or Advanced Server or ME
• Microsoft Internet Explorer, V4.0, or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer, V5.0 is required to use Page Detailer, a component of Studio.

WebSphere Studio Advanced Edition

WebSphere Studio provides cross-platform Web and Java standards supported by the WebSphere Application Server platform. The Advanced Edition is aimed at professional Web developers in larger teams developing dynamic Web applications.

Features include:

• Rich page editing functions
• Support for Java Server Page (JSP) tags
• A team environment to check in/check out files
• Advanced wizards to create database applications
• Application Server 4.0 Advanced Single Server Edition
• Integration with VisualAge for Java 4.0
• Personalisation tools (rules definition,user profile and content definition)
• Page Detailer to monitor and analyse Web-based transactions
• Site Control Management (SCM) integration feature to enable version control
• Remote debugging of JSP pages running on the WebSphere Application Server.

Language Support:

• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Traditional Chinese
• Simplified Chinese
• Korean
• Japanese.

System Requirements

• Intel Pentium class PC
• 500 MB of free disk space
• CD-ROM drive
• 96 MB of memory
• VGA or better video adapter, configured for at least 256 colours
• Microsoft Windows 98, NT Workstation, Server v4.0 with Service Pack 3, 2000 Professional, Server or Advanced Server or ME
• Microsoft Internet Explorer, V4.0, or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer, V5.0 is required to use Page Detailer, a component of Studio.