>one notable example among several. In fact, lately (with IBM's WebSphere >Liberty Profile) you don't even need to add a JEE runtime to z/OS to run >JEE applications. You just add the application itself, and if you're >licensed for base z/OS you already have what you need on z/OS. If you've >tried the WebSphere Liberty Profile you know what I mean, and if you >haven't you should.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but do you not have to be licensed for WAS to use Liberty? Also, I don't believe Liberty is fully J2EE compliant. >So whether you're a JEE, JRuby/Ruby, Jython/Python, LAMP, Mono, MUMPS/M, >or... whatever you develop with, chances are excellent you're already >developing for zEnterprise (z/OS and/or Linux on z). And if you want to Server side Java is perhaps not being replaced by, but certainly supplemented with, server-side JavaScript these days. There is something nice about the idea of using the same language both client-side and server-side. Unfortunately, last I looked for it, there was no Node.JS yet for z/OS. And my guess is probably wouldn't be for a while because I believe one would also need to port V8, which I believe has certain assembler dependencies. And even if it was ported, it's not Java-based so not zAAP-eligible, so I'm not sure anybody would really want to pay the GCP cost to run it. However, I have had good luck running JavaScript via Rhino within Helma though. (That is in a JVM on the zAAPs and works suprisingly well.) But all the "cool kids" seem to be leaning towards Node these days. Scott Chapman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
