YOUR IBM i TRAINING SOURCE

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Overview

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a collection of tools — including editors, compilers, and debuggers — that are available to a programmer through a common interface. This course provides an introduction to the most popular IDE for IBM i application development, the Rational Developer for i (RDi).

The course begins with a basic description of RDi, including a description of Eclipse, the building block on which RDi was built. The course then introduces you to the RDi workbench, the primary interface to RDi tools. You will learn RDi terminology, such as perspective, view, workspace, and editor.

Next, the course takes a detailed look at views. You will see the various ways that views can be manipulated in a perspective. The course ends by describing how to access RDi's extensive help facility.

Approximate Study Time: 60 minutes

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Describe the function of RDi
Describe the relationship between RDi and Eclipse
Start RDi
Define the following RDi terms:
- Workbench
- Workspace
- View
- Editor
- Perspective
Open a new perspective
Switch between open perspectives
Open a view
Close a view
Maximize a view
Switch between the views in a stack
Display a fast view
Convert a standard view to a fast view and vice versa
Open the Welcome view
Access the RDi Help facility

Topic Outline

RDi Overview

The RDi Workbench

Working with Views

Getting Help with RDi

Audience

This course is intended for programmers who will use RDi for IBM i application development.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.