IBM^® Rational^® Application Developer Version 6.0 for Windows^® - Release notes

Welcome to the integrated suite of Rational^® Developer tools, powered by Eclipse technology release 3.0.1. To view the latest version of this readme file, go to this Web address: www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/rad/60/html/readme.html

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1.0 Hardware requirements
2.0 Supported software
3.0 Version 6.0 release notes
4.0 About Eclipse
5.0 Where to find more information
6.0 Downloading an installable image

1.0 Hardware requirements

Refer to the Installation Guide for the hardware requirements for installing Rational Application Developer.

2.0 Supported software

Refer to the Installation Guide for details on software and specifications that are supported by Rational Application Developer. For details on software and specifications that are supported by a specific tool in Rational Application Developer, refer to the online help.

3.0 Version 6.0 release notes

Release notes cover release-specific information (such as problems and limitations) that did not become available until after the product documentation was finalized.

For information about known problems and workarounds in the Eclipse base, refer to readme_eclipse.html located in the install_dir\eclipse\readme directory (where install_dir is your Rational Application Developer installation directory). This information is only available in English.

For information about what has changed since the previous release, click and click the Help > Welcome and click the What's New icon.

4.0 About Eclipse

Eclipse is an open-source project that delivers a framework for developing plug-ins that make it easier to create, integrate, and use software tools. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, tool producers can concentrate on their areas of expertise and the creation of new development technology. The Eclipse platform is written in the Java^TM language and comes with extensive toolkits and examples for construction plug-ins. It has already been deployed on a range of operating system environments including Linux^TM, Mac OS X, QNX, and Windows^®-based systems. Full details of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse platform are available at www.eclipse.org.

Plug-in tools from other vendors, also built using the open-source Eclipse platform, integrate with the Rational Developer environment to provide additional value.

5.0 Where to find more information

Installation, migration, and coexistence

For information about installing Rational Application Developer, refer to the Installation Guide.
For information about migrating applications to Rational Application Developer or upgrading from previous releases, refer to the Migration Guide.

Product news, updates, and fixes

The product home page for Rational Application Developer is www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application/index.html. For FAQs, lists of known problems and fixes, and other support information, visit the Support page on the product home page.
For information about the WebSphere Application Server, refer to www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/was/
For information about WebSphere Portal, refer to www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/

Technical articles and sample code

The IBM Rational zone at www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/ offers technical articles, "how to" information, tutorials, samples, and previews of new technology.

Product documentation

For general information about the product, click Help > Welcome and then click the Overview icon.
For more detailed information on how to use the features of the product, click Help > Help Contents.

6.0 Downloading an installable image

These instructions are provided for customers who download electronic installation images from the Internet instead of installing from CD-ROM.

Note: When upgrading from one Rational Software Development Platform product to another using the ESD images, ensure that you download and extract the same set of images for the new product that you downloaded and extracted for the original product. The same components installed in the original product will be automatically installed in the upgraded product.

Prerequisites:

Your environment variable TEMP or TMP must point to a valid temporary directory with at least 500 MB free. This is in addition to the space required to install the product.
You must have approximately 3.5 GB of disk space to store the full set of downloadable images plus another 2 GB of disk space to unpack the images.

There are 13 downloadable parts for Rational Application Developer. You must download the first 2 at a minimum; the rest are optional. Refer to the table below for details about what each archive contains:

Part 1	REQUIRED	Contains core installation files.
Part 2	REQUIRED	Contains core installation files.
Part 3	OPTIONAL	Contains the WebSphere^® Application Server V6.0.
Part 4	OPTIONAL	Contains the Enterprise Generation Language (EGL).
Part 5	OPTIONAL	Contains the Language Pack.
Part 6	OPTIONAL	Contains the WebSphere Portal test environment V5.0.
Part 7	OPTIONAL	Contains Agent Controller. Download this part if you intend to use Agent Controller for profiling and remote deployment.
Part 8	OPTIONAL	Contains the WebSphere legacy test environments.
Part 9	OPTIONAL	Contains the embedded messaging client and server. Important: If MQSeries^® is already installed, do not install this part because the messaging and queuing client and server are a subset of the functions of the MQSeries^®.
Part 10	OPTIONAL	Contains the Crystal Enterprise V10 Professional Edition (English).
Part 11	OPTIONAL	Contains the Crystal Enterprise V10 Professional Edition (Japanese).
Part 12	OPTIONAL	Contains the Crystal Enterprise V10 Embedded Edition (English).
Part 13	OPTIONAL	Contains the Crystal Enterprise V10 Embedded Edition (Japanese).

To download and create the installation image:

Download all the required parts and any optional parts to the same temporary directory.
Launch the extractor-rad_win32.exe file that is located in the temporary directory. This starts the wizard that creates the installation image.
Follow the instructions in the wizard to specify where you want to create the image and the features you want to include.
After the image is created, if you want to install the product immediately, click Start the installation wizard before you click Finish. Alternatively, you can run the installation program later by launching temp_dir\disk1\launchpad.exe, where temp_dir is the directory where you created the installation image.
Follow the instructions in the "Installing from the CD-ROM" section of the Installation Guide.

IBM® Rational® Application Developer Version 6.0 for Windows® - Release notes