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Integrated development environment (IDE)

An integrated development environment is a set of software development tools such as source editors, compilers, and debuggers, that are accessible from a single user interface.

In Rational Application Developer, the IDE is called the Workbench. Rational RAD's Workbench provides customizable perspectives that support role-based development. It provides a common way for all members of a project team to create, manage, and navigate resources easily.

Views provide different ways of looking at the resources you are working on, while editors allow you to create and modify the resources. Perspectives are a combination of views and editors that show various aspects of the project resource, and are organized by developer role or task. For example, a Java developer would work most often in the Java perspective, while a Web designer would work in the Web perspective.

Several default perspectives are provided in Rational Application Developer. Team members also can customize these perspectives according to their current role and personal preference. More than one perspective can be opened at a time, and users can switch perspectives while working with RAD v7.5. If you find that a particular perspective does not contain the views or editors that you require, you can add them to the perspective and position them to suit your requirements.

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