RAD v6.0 Migration

This week I successfully initiated RAD6.0 migration process in our team.
At my work place all are getting new PC as part of PC Renewal process, so I thought its the best time to plunge into RAD6.0. Everyone in our team were using WSAD5.x/WAS5.0 and PVCS. The goal is to checkout the project files from PVCS and made it work in RAD6.0.

I had problem setting up my local workspace from PVCS project, the metadata files(e.g., the .project, .classpath, etc...) are bit different compared to WSAD. I have to manually setup WAS 5.0 server, tweak the classpath and had to compile the projects with 1.3 JDK to made it work. The plan is to stay with WAS5.0 until early next year before we move to WAS6.1. Below is some notes that I learned during this process.

Product positioning and relationships:
* Rational Application Developer [RAD]: J2EE development toolset
* Rational Software Modeler [RSM]: UML modeling toolset
* Rational Software Architect [RSA]: UML modeling, J2EE development, architectural analysis

* In cost, RSA <> RAD+RSM ['>' means "strictly greater than"]

WSAD v5, RAD v6.0, RAD v7.0 are based on Eclipse.
WSAD 5.0 sit on top of Eclipse 2.x.
RAD 6.0 sit on top of Eclipse 3.x.
RAD fully supports WAS v5.0.2 development.
RAD v7 will not support WAS v5.0.2.
RAD v7.0 [WAS v6.1] planned 1Q2007.

Ofcourse RAD6.0 is better than WSAD5.x. :)