A variety of utilities are available to develop IBM® WebSphere® sMash applications. This topic provides an introduction to help you pick the one that's right for you.

The IBM® WebSphere® sMash command-line interface (CLI) provides the basic support for developing and running WebSphere sMash applications. Alternatives for developing applications include App Builder and, for Java™-intensive development, an Eclipse plug-in for Java and Groovy.

App Builder is a non-released Web-based tool for developing IBM® WebSphere® sMash applications.

IBM® WebSphere® sMash plug-ins for Eclipse are non-released components and generally for platform developers (i.e. those who are developing extensions for the platform). For application development, App Builder is the preferred tool.

This article provides tips for moving applications to other servers and switching applications to the stable module group.

You can create documentation for your RESTful resource handlers with RESTdoc. The RESTdoc tool generates HTML tables that describe the RESTful APIs exposed by your application and its dependencies.

You can create documentation for your flows with FlowRESTdoc that is similar to RESTdoc (zero.restdoc.webtools). The FlowRESTdoc tool generates HTML tables that describe the RESTful APIs of Assemble flow in your application and its dependencies.