Next week IBM is expected to announce V5R2 of WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries. David Slater, iSeries AD Market Manager, and Jim Mason, president of ebt-now, gave a peek at what users can expect in this new release during a Webcast titled Web decisions: Which development tool is right for you?.
Key enhancements of V5R2 of WebSphere Development Studio
WebSphere Studio Workbench
This is an open, standards-based, Integrated Development Environment based on Eclipse. The tooling infrastructure will integrate both IBM and non-IBM development tools. Several key tool vendors are in process of integrating to WebSphere Studio Workbench.
Remote edit/compile/debug from Eclipse IDE
iSeries support is available through Remote System Explorer and Remote Systems Framework. And it can be extended to other eServers.
WebFacing Tool
Moving 5250 applications to the Web just got easier with the following features:
- Improved/expanded DDS keyword support
- Integration to new IDE
- Improved Web look-and-feel
- Improved stability
There's also improved security for WebFaced applications and NLS/DBCS support.
WebSphere Studio Site Developer, Advanced
Look for these added features:
- Web and Java development integrated into one product
- iSeries enhancements delivered as plug-ins
- Web services construction and consumption
- XML tooling
- DatabaseTooling
The upgrade is delivered as a no additional charge with software subscription.
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- The scoop on WebSphere Studio
WebSphere Studio is one of the key components in IBM's WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries tool suite (program 5722-WDS). WebSphere Studio has a variety of tools for building and maintaining Web site resources: Page Designer for Web pages and JSPs, Applet Designer for Java applets, WebArt Designer for static image files and the Animated Gif Designer for animated gifs. Studio also has a set of key wizards that can jump-start your Web development even if you're not an expert at SQL, Java, HTML, etc.: the SQL wizard, the database wizard and the Java bean wizard.
- Seven steps to a Java Web database application
It would be great if iSeries programmers knew how to use Java to create e-business applications, but programmers can still forge ahead if they aren't trained in Java yet. WebSphere tools make it easy, and Jim Mason and Dave Slater show you just how easy it can be.
- WebSphere/Web development discussion forum:
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