Re: Web services primer

["Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob, 

Thanks.  Actually IWS and WAS 8.5 Express are free to any IBM i customer.
In fact IWS is already installed on your system, so no cost for either.  I
would agree that a full copy of WAS is not an option here.  I had not
thought of JBOSS even though I had it running years ago on a V5R4 box,
thanks for the reminder. 

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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert
Cancilla
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 8:36 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web services primer

Jim,

Spend some time at Apache.org and take a good look at Tomcat or go look at
JBOSS both are free open source servers.  WebSphere is virtually a thing of
the past.  It makes no sense to spend the money on WebSphere today.  

Bob C.

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> On May 3, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Folks:
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> I have a customer that is about to take the plunge into web services.  
> They first need to choose if they use WAS 8.5 Express, IWS or TOMCAT.  
> Some of the IBM i instances have the Zend server so they would use 
> that when available.  Next they need a good primer about design and
implementation.
> I've found the basic web sites from IBM but I'm wondering if the group 
> has some suggestions on best practices and resources to use.
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> The customer is at V7R1 now but will be at V7R2 very soon and 
> potentially
> V7R3 by end of year.  Any comments on the IBM i environment as it 
> relates to web services would be welcome as well.
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> While I can build and deploy a simple web service, I am far from an 
> expert therefore my request to you.
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>
> --
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
>
> Agile Technology Architects
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