Chapter 2. Choose Your Development Environment

Introduction

WebSphere sMash offers three different development environments: AppBuilder, Eclipse, and a CLI environment. AppBuilder is a fully functional web-based application development environment. It is lightweight, easy to use, and comes with WebSphere sMash as a sMash application. Eclipse is a full-feature development environment that is very popular the world over. WebSphere sMash offers a plugin for the Eclipse environment that enables developers to use the full Eclipse suite of tools to help develop WebSphere sMash applications. Finally, there is a CLI environment that enables developers to utilize their own tooling suite to develop WebSphere sMash applications. This gives developers ...

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