With the Red Hat offering, developers do not have to cobble together different open source frameworks before they can start developing, Red Hat said.
"The idea is to help [developers] develop their apps on top of JBoss middleware," said Brian Che, Red Hat product manager for developer offerings.
Red Hat Developer Studio provides a development environment for enterprise Java, AJAX, and SOA applications, Red Hat said.
With the product, Red Hat is integrating developer tools with an application platform, saving developers from integration issues, according to Vishwanath Venugopalan, analyst for enterprise software at The 451 Group.
"Traditionally, software developers developing on open source platforms have had to expend pretty significant effort on the complex tasks of maintaining a cohesive development environment," Venugopalan said.
The Red Hat product, though, does lack integrations with software such as the Spring development framework for Java, said Venugopalan. But it is understandable that the Red Hat offering will not be pre-integrated with everything, he noted.
"This integration of tools and [an] application platform will be the biggest win for developers. It's a recognition of the importance of developer productivity in the context of commercial adoption of open source," said Venugopalan.
A general release of Red Hat Developer Studio could happen as soon as late September. The beta release is available on the Red Hat Web site. A copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be included with the general release.
Red Hat plans to sell subscriptions to Red Hat Developer Studio.
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