Rational has announced Rational XDE, an extended development environment designed to integrate with IBM Eclipse, Websphere Studio IDE and MS Visual Studio .NET. Rational XDE aims to eliminate the "gap between design and development" by brining the modeling tool into the IDE itself. XDE supports J2EE design patterns and J2EE server deployment code/model sychronization, and more.

TogetherSoft Corporation, today announced the immediate availability of Together Control Center 4.1. Together Control Center 4.1 includes: New XML structure editor, Expanded EJB Deployment Expert, Servlet patterns,Improved compile/make/run/debug, Improved forward and reverse engineering of database schemas, and more.