IBM Rational Web Developer Refresh Pack 6.0.1 - Release notes

For Rational Web Developer, Version 6.0 or 6.0.0.1

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Contents

1.0 About this release
   1.1 New in this release
   1.2 Product fix history
2.0 Installation information
   2.1 Hardware requirements
   2.2 Software requirements
   2.3 Software corequisites
3.0 Known limitations, problems, and workarounds
4.0 Customer support
5.0 Notices and trademarks

1.0 About this release

IBM® Rational® Web Developer Refresh Pack 6.0.1 contains enhancements and fixes to the version 6.0 release.

1.1 New in this release

IBM Rational Web Developer Refresh Pack 6.0.1 provides new function for the following components:

Crystal Reports®

Data tools

Debuggers

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL)

Rational Product Updater

Rational Product Updater can now remove from your system any outdated files after you install a new update. You can use the Clean up function to significantly reduce the disk space that the installed product uses, and to purge any outdated files. For additional information, see the "Removing outdated files" topic in the Rational Product Updater help.

Note: This functionality is only supported after you install the 6.0.1 refresh pack and subsequent updates.

Web tools

Web services

1.2 Product fix history

This refresh pack includes Rational Web Developer version 6.0.0.1 and the following interim fixes:

This refresh pack contains fixes for problems in the following components. APAR numbers, if applicable, are in parentheses:

Agent Controller

(JR21559) This fix resolves problems with a RemoteTestRunner class not found when profiling a JUnit class.

Crystal Reports

This fix resolves the following problems:

Data tools

This fix resolves the following problems:

Documentation

This fix resolves the following problems:

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL)

This fix resolves the following problems:

J2EE tools

This fix resolves the following problems:

JavaServer Faces

This fix resolves the following problems:

Struts

This fix resolves the following problems:

Web tools

This fix resolves the following problems:

XML tools

This fix resolves the following problems:

2.0 Installation information

For information about installing IBM Rational Web Developer Refresh Pack 6.0.1, installation prerequisites, installing from a command line, and setting up a local mirror of the update server, see the installation instructions at www3.software.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/rationalsdp/rwd/60/install_instruction/601/install.html.

2.1 Hardware requirements

Refer to the installation instructions (install_dir\rwd_prod\install.html) for the hardware requirements for installing Rational Web Developer.

2.2 Software requirements

2.3 Software corequisites

3.0 Known limitations, problems, and workarounds

These release notes include release-specific information, such as problems and limitations that were not available until after the product documentation was finalized.

4.0 Customer support

The product home page for Rational Web Developer is www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/web/. For FAQs, lists of known problems and fixes, and other support information, visit the product support page at www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/web/support/index.html.

5.0 Notices and trademarks

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