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 * Provides single, seamless environment for rapid design, integration, construction and deployment of Web, wireless and portal-based business applications.
 * Leverages mainstream development skills on complex n-tier development projects.
 * Focuses development efforts on high-value business requirements — not infrastructure coding.
 * Accelerates application delivery through architected RAD techniques such as reverse engineering, rapid user interface design, functional prototyping, automated n-tier construction and deployment features.
 * Simplifies legacy integration.
 * Creates agile, standards-based applications and portlets.

Keywords
automated n-tier construction
business infrastructure
code generation
design and modeling
functional prototyping
IBM Rational
n-tier
n-tier applications
n-tier development
portal-based applications
RAD
RAD design
RAD modeling
rapid user interface design
reverse engineering
web applications
wireless applications

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