RE: Recommendations on development language/environmentforwebpresentation layer

Based on your requirements and IBM's support of Java I would definitely go
with Java for every tier with DB2 on the backend. Some may disagree with my
assessment and recommendation, but there is so many good things about Java
and it's future that it makes an excellent long term commitment.  

I have an application I have been working on for the past 9 months that uses
JSF (JavaServer Faces), Hibernate, and MySQL (among other open source
technologies). My development environment is Eclipse with the
MyEclipseIDE.com plugin. This environment has served me quite well and I
love it!  Just so you know from where I speak, I am traditionally an RPG
programmer (about 6 years)who has been using WDSc since 4.0 and have been
making a gradual change to Java for the past 5 years or so.

The reason I would go with one language (Java) is because that gives you
very easy debugging capabilities right from within your IDE. You can step
into the different tiers with the nice debugger included in Eclipse. Note
that if you have a software license with IBM you can get WDSc v6.0 at no
additional charge, and it has very nice support for JSF (along with many
other things).  

HTH,
Aaron Bartell

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>From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On
>Behalf Of Dave Odom
>Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 4:11 PM
>To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [WEB400] Recommendations on development language/environment 
>for webpresentation layer
>
>Fellow iSeries developers,
>
>What are your best recommendations for development language, 
>environment, tools, etc., to create a web presentation layer and 
>application layer over iSeries tables that make up an iSeries Data
>Warehouse/Data Mart/Operational Data Store.   As an aside, the
>database
>will be DB2 tables created via DDL and access from the presentation 
>layer/application layer will be via SQL and stored procedures fostering 
>static SQL on the iSeries as much as possible.
>
>Since I'll do a prototype and then the production application, I'd like 
>a toolset that allows for easy development of the first and flow into
>the second.   I'd like the language/development environment NOT to be
>esoteric and out of the skills mainstream.  I'd like the 
>language/development environment to facilitate ease of development,
>maintenance and rapid development.    I'd like the
>language/development
>environment to have a track record and probability of being around in 
>the future.
>
>Having said all the "wants", I'll entertain alternative suggestions.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Dave Odom
>Arizona
>  
>
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