What benefits does Rational XDE Developer offer to developers?
Rational XDE Developer enables developers to extend their development experience. Traditional lifecycle support tools are only loosely coupled to the development environment; they have their own user interface, requiring you to use ALT+TAB to go back and forth between two environments. This makes for an awkward and unproductive user experience. In contrast, Rational XDE Developer provides a seamless design and development environment. Its visual design and development tools are tightly integrated with IBM® WebSphere Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, giving the developer a single user experience. In addition, Rational XDE Developer Plus includes IBM® Rational® PurifyPlus™, which offers a set of runtime analysis tools that detect memory errors, highlight application performance bottlenecks, and identify untested code. These features help you find problems in your code and fix them before they surface in your customer’s environment. Since PurifyPlus is integrated directly into WebS