Re: What's the latest thinking of the best two or three web development languages/environ...

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if you can avoid learning curve and new development tools.  
With ASP your server side stuff would have been wrapped into the code 
for the client as well (depending upon how you wrote the asp pages and 
separated your UI from the business logic). You need a new server side 
language to work with since ASP can't be executed natively on the i (or 
in PASE for that matter).  So you are down to a few options:

CGIDEV2 for the server side.  You already know RPG so that won't require 
new skills.  No new IDE either since you can write the server logic in 
RPG using WDSc (or SDA).
Nathan Andelin, and a few others, have some RPG/CGI frameworks as well.

The rest of these options will require new language skills and IDE 
(probably):

PHP - Might be an easier transition for you from ASP and Javascript.
JSP - If you go this route, WDSc or just Eclipse plus some plugs could 
do it.  Again, your ASP background will help, but you are heading into 
Java land.
EGL - Easy and quick and you can do just about everything with one IDE 
and language set.  You have learning curve though and a new IDE ($$$)

Ruby on Rails - I have this working adequately and have to update my 
tutorials to reflect all of the changes in the Ruby and Rails world over 
the past 5 months.  Learning curve is steep for Ruby and you'll need a 
new IDE (well, plugins for Eclipse).

So, the only one I can think of that will meet your tight requires would 
be CGIDEV2 or an RPG based web framework.  Everything else will be quite 
a jump.

My 2 cents.

Pete

Dave Odom wrote:
> for creating web pages that access DB2/400 for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations?  I'm talking about basic web development from scratch, not calling RPG, nor screen scraping existing Display Files; fresh web development.  The beginning web pages will be simple, no fancy presentation for awhile.  I'd like to store the web objects on the i but that may no longer be the best place.  
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> I'd like to use what is in our current IBM i or MickySoft environment, not buy some new development tool, if at all possible.   I'm used to working in HTML, ASP, javascript and the like.  I wouldn't mind Using WebSphere, as we have it, but fear the learning curve might be too long. Opinions please.
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> Thank you,
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> Dave Odom
> Arizona
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