Perspectives, views, and editors
Rational Application Developer supports a role-based development model, which means that the development environment provides different tools, depending on the role of the user. It does this by providing several different perspectives that contain different editors and views necessary to work on tasks associated with each role.
We start this chapter with an introduction to the common structures and features applicable to all perspectives in Application Developer and then describe its help facility. Following this, we provide a brief overview of the main features of each perspective available in IBM Rational Application Developer v7.5. Most of these perspectives are described in detail in the chapters within this book.
The chapter is organized into the following sections:
