Managing evelopment of an Enterprise Application

A system for managing development of an enterprise application, the system comprising:

• a system for identifying a plurality of logical tiers for the enterprise application;
• a system for obtaining a unique set of components for each of the plurality of logical tiers;
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• a system for generating an enterprise application view that includes a unique display area for each of the plurality of logical tiers, wherein each unique display area includes a set of objects that represent at least one of the corresponding unique set of components.

An integrated development environment (IDE) stored on a computer-readable medium for enabling a computer infrastructure to manage development of an enterprise application, the IDE comprising:

• a system for managing a plurality of logical tiers for the enterprise application;
• a system for managing a plurality of components for the enterprise application, wherein each component comprises one of a plurality of component types and belongs to one of the plurality of logical tiers;
• a plurality of development tools, wherein each development tool manages development of a component having one of the plurality of component types;
• a system for generating an enterprise application view based on the plurality of logical tiers and the plurality of components;
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• a system for integrating each of the plurality of development tools with the enterprise application view.