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Getting Started with WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries
Getting Started with WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries Author:Brian Kelly On May 25, 2001, IBM changed the Application Development landscape on the AS/400 and iSeries forever and for better! The WebSphere Development Suite for iSeries is the best thing that has happened for the AS/400 community since the System/38 raised the AD productivity bar five to ten fold. In one big move, IBM took all of its AD tools and p... more »ackaged them all together. There are no more AD "haves" and "have nots". Everyone is included. AS/400 developers now have interactive and batch tools, integrated client server tools, and Webfacing development tools. All of these tools focus on the existing strong RPG and COBOL skills of the bulk of AS/400 Programmers. Will we see another five to ten fold increase in productivity in the client server and Web development areas? With these tools, the chances are good. Ahor Brian Kelly has designed this book to be your companion to help you realize the power of these tools. His case study approach shows you how you would take a simple RPG/400 application and move it through all of the new tools. Along the way, he demonstrates, by example, the iSeries technology which enables you to split the use interface (UI) from the business logic - using interactive and batch methods first. This proficiency is a big plus for iSeries Web development. As a bonus, Brian demonstrates which techniques will help you optimize your interactive CPU performance while switching interactive work to batch. This book series takes you from a simple RPG and COBOL program, though UI/logic separation, to CODE/400 client serve AD to Visual Age RPG to CGI and on to WebFacing. It does not stop there. For full control Web development, the last step is to take you al the way to building Web applications from scratch using the new WebSphere Studio included with the tools. Perhaps the best news is that you don't have to learn JAVA to be successful.« less