Developerworks Connections is dead

As I was waffling this morning about the sad demise of IBM Developerworks Connections Wiki – here is another excellent article that discusses various extensions to IBM Rational Developer for IBM i – How to Extend RDi (#RDi)

So here it is, re-posted before IBM can hide this wonderful source of old information:

Write your own extensions to Extend RDi

If you wish to extend RDi yourself you can find some useful links below.

Tutorials

How to extend Lpex written for WDSc but applies to RDi.

How to extend Lpex – although written for RDz it applies to RDi as wRe share the LPEX editor.

How to write your own plugin extending RDi based on RDi 9.6.

APIs

For Rational Developer for i API information, visit:

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rdpower/

For Eclipse RSE information (which Rational Developer for i itself extends),  visit the RSE Developer Guide at:

http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.rse.doc.isv/guide/rse_int.html

For accessing EVENTF information in order to integrate custom build tooling.

How to access search results from an EVENTF

How to access errors from an EVENTF

To extend LPEX, (In Lpex, hit Esc to get to the command line and then type in ? and hit Enter)

To access Code Coverage data see Code Coverage page.

Install Complementary Products from IBM

If you are developer for another platform such as Z or AIX or Linux, there are complementary products that will integrate with RDi.  A complete list can be found here after click on the link under Shell Sharing.

One free offering from IBM that well benefit any SQL developers is the IBM Data Studio.  Click here for more info on how to install and use this.

Use someone else’s extensions

Below is a table where any product or plugin that extends RDi can make themselves known.

Jon Paris has written an article on this subject.