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In this tutorial you will learn how to set up a ClearCase LT environment with Application Developer 5.0. You will then step through a development scenario where two developers work on a web project. But first lets begin with a quick ClearCase introduction.

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Instead of writing new applications from scratch, much of a developer’s job today involves changing existing code. Simple changes may consist of just adding on to the existing code. However, as multiple revisions or extensive changes are made, the internal structure of the software may begin to deteriorate. It can become difficult to understand, and expensive to modify and maintain. That is why it is important to know how to refactor code. Refactoring is changing the internal structure of software to make that software easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behavior. In this article, you’ll learn about features in WebSphere Studio Application Developer that make refactoring easy.

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Web services typically provide raw data or single business functions that require rendering on the portal side, however, remote portlet web services are visual web services which include presentation and application logic. In this tutorial we take you through the portlet development process. You will first develop a local portlet that retrieves data using web services, then you will turn the local portlet into a remote portlet making it available to all other portal administrators.

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