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Application servers supported by Rational Application Developer 7.5
The most commonly used application server with Application Developer is WebSphere Application Server. WebSphere Application Server is tightly integrated with RAD v7.5, which offers tooling to test, run, and debug applications from the workbench, for example, by using the run-on-server functionality. You can specify server-specific configurations such as extensions and bindings for a WebSphere Application Server from the Workbench.
You can launch tooling for WebSphere Application Server from within the Workbench, such as the WebSphere Administrative Console and the Profile Management Tool. In addition, you can develop, run, and debug administrative scripts against a WebSphere Application Server.
In RAD v7.5, the integration with WebSphere Application Server v7.0 for deployment, testing, and administration is the same as for the WebSphere Application Server v7.0 test environment installed with Rational Application Developer and also for the Network Deployment edition.
The following application servers are compatible with Rational Application Developer v7.5:
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| IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 5.1, 6.0, 6.1, and 7.0
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| IBM WebSphere Application Server Express version 5.1
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| J2EE Publishing Server (publish EAR to a server)
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| Static Web Publishing Server (HTTP server for static Web projects)
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RAD v7.5 server tools are based on the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project. WTP provides a facility for publishing an Enterprise Application project and all of its modules to a runtime environment for testing purposes.
Server adapters are tools installed into the Workbench that support a particular server. The server adapters on the following list are included, by default, in the Web Tools Platform installed with Rational Application Developer:
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| Apache Tomcat versions 3.2, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0
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| IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0
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| JBoss versions 3.2, 3, 4.0, 4.2, and 5.0
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| ObjectWeb Java Open Application Server (JOnAS) version 4
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| Oracle Containers for Java EE (OC4J) Standalone Server version 10.1.3 and 10.1.3.n
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Additional servers adapters can be obtained by clicking Download additional server adapters in the New Server dialog as shown in Figure | 2-1. To open the New Server dialog, right-click the Servers window and select New Æ Server. Some of the additional server adapters that could be obtained at the time of writing were:
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| Apache Geromino Server versions 1.0, 1.1.x, 2.0, and 2.1
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| IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition versions 1.1.x, 2.0, and 2.1
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Figure 22-1 Downloading additional server adapters