=========================================================== SEARCH400 | WebSphere Strategies Tip January 10, 2002
Essential explanations, tools and code for the iSeries Web developer. More tips: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2fa,00.html =========================================================== In today's technical advice roundup you'll find tips, expert answers, and input from your peers for the following WebSphere and Web development concerns: Today's Featured WebSphere Strategies Tip: -- Options for debugging Java applications Answers to Other Technical Questions: 1. Building, deploying JSPs with WebSphere Studio 2. WebSphere setup on client and iSeries 3. Specifics on 'extending' existing apps via WebSphere 4. Introduction to QShell: Administer Java applications Important Announcements and Links 1. Live Audio Chat: Protect yourself from disaster 2. Tips Contest: December winners announced 3. Win a Microsoft Xbox: Refer a friend to search400 4. WebSphere/Web Development Forum: Interact with your peers ______________________________________________________________ *************** SPONSORED BY: NEUVIS SOFTWARE **************** Help! Your business users demand access to corporate data now. What do you do? NeuArchitect software Web-enables legacy systems faster and easier. Integrate IMS, VSAM, CICS, MVS and 120 other sources into new n-tier applications. Or reverse-engineer legacy systems into new apps and add pages, Web services, XML. All using your existing developer resources. For a FREE ONLINE SEMINAR, click: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;3797242;5058249;s?http://www.neuvis.com/neuvis/asp/techbrief.asp =========================================================== Today's Featured Tip =========================================================== Options for debugging Java applications Debugging applications isn't usually an important consideration when you're deciding on application architectures or requirements. It's one of those items that becomes critical during development if you haven't planned ahead. With Java, iSeries developers usually have a good choice of debugging options. You can select the one that best fits your debug requirements. Debugging Java applications is a LARGE topic. This tip from Web development expert Jim Mason points out your options and some considerations for getting started. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci789575,00.html =========================================================== Answers to Other Technical Questions =========================================================== 1. Building, deploying JSPs with WebSphere Studio Get first-hand knowledge of how to use WebSphere Studio from site experts Jim Mason and Dave Slater. They give you tips for both designing JSP pages and debugging runtime errors in the WebSphere Test Environment. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci761938,00.html 2. WebSphere setup on client and iSeries One user writes, "We have installed the WebSphere Development Tools on our PCs. We see that you have to have run STRCODE on the iSeries. We are having trouble getting this going. Can anyone give us an idea of what we need to do to get this set up on the iSeries and on our PCs to be able to start developing VisualAge RPG?" Web development expert Jim Mason has some advice. http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^3@.ee84637/224 3. Specifics on 'extending' existing apps via WebSphere This Member writes, "With regards to WebSphere being the tool of choice to port legacy apps over to the Internet, (the previous question's answer included this: 'extend existing iSeries 400 data and applications rapidly to the Web.') How specifically will it 'extend' existing apps 'rapidly' to the Web? Web development expert Jim Mason responds. http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^2@.ee84637/230 4. Introduction to QShell: Administer Java applications Here's a good rundown of the options for administering Java applications. Included is a list of tools with administration support. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci778723,00.html ______________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT FEATURES AND LINKS: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LIVE AUDIO CHAT | Protect yourself from disaster: Backup essentials Who: Tom Huntington, vice president of technical services at Help/Systems Inc. When: Jan. 16, 2002 at 2:00 PM EST (19:00 GMT) Tom will provide you with a clear understanding of what to back up on your iSeries and when to back it up. Learn about running the SAVSECDTA and SAVCFG commands, the benefits of journaling your database, running unattended backups and more. >>Pre-register for the event: http://search400.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid3,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- DECEMBER WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400 tips contest Congratulations to Mike Faust for winning search400's Tip of the Month contest for December. Mike won a R.A.D. Robot and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "iSeries & AS/400 data in an HTML table," http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci785868,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Freddie Cogburn, Timothy Grove and Azmat Bhatti. NEW CONTEST FOR JANUARY: This month we're giving away an AMTc Nightstar Night-Vision Spotting Scope. This night-vision spotting scope sports a built-in standard infrared illuminator and has great resolution, clarity and light gain. 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