As part of the WebSphere family of products, Studio provides a complete environment that simplifies every aspect of web application development - from designing and building, to testing and publishing. WebSphere Studio 3.0 brings together a suite of tools in a common interface, letting everyone on a multidisciplinary team work on the same projects and have access to the files they need. But the real goal of Studio is to help you create applications for WebSphere Application Server using the most advanced web technologies. An integrated Debugger to find JSP and Java code problems in real time Integration with popular source control management software like IBM VisualAge Team Connection, Rational ClearCase, Microsoft Source Safe, PVCS, and Lotus Domino. Applet Designer, a visual authoring tool that makes it easy to build new Java applets WebArt Designer, a handy tool for creating masthead images, buttons, and other graphics for your page AnimatedGif Designer, for assembling GIF animations.
Studio provides a direct path to transfer files between products.
The IBM HTTP Server, powered by Apache, is included to complete the package. We know every web development group needs a variety of tools for its range of skills and roles. If you already have an HTTP server and WebSphere Application Server on your computer, Studio can detect this and configure the publishing path to these servers for you. So, if you are going to install them, we recommend you do it before you install Studio. Installing Studio couldn't be simpler.