Designed to jumpstart the learning process with a wide variety of interactive, practical, end-to-end tutorials, this guide to IBM Rational Application Developer contains hands-on exercises and in-depth explanations of each specific topic. Each tutorial’s exercise is independent of any earlier tutorials, allowing readers to skip from tutorial to tutorial, based on their specific knowledge requirements. Tutorials range from beginning introductions to creating Web, EJB, JMS, and Web Services applications to advanced tutorials on security, publishing, testing, team development, profiling, and logging. All tutorials run on IBM Cloudscape, IBM DB2® Universal Database, Microsoft® SQL Server, Sybase® Enterprise Systems, and Oracle® Database.