Ralph Burton wrote:
What are you using?
We're using WebSphere Appserver Express 5.1 and UOJ to talk to UV. We migrated off of Macromedia's JRun appserver last year. The "Express" versions of IBM's various WebSphere offerings are targeted at SMBs and are priced accordingly. Most of the full-blown WebSphere product features are still there though. Enterprise Java Beans are excluded from Appserver Express, and the IDE is a little more stripped down.
Does it work well?
Yes, it works very well. The IDE (WebSphere Studio Site Developer) is based on the open-source Eclipse IDE. Debugging and application deployment are very easy. You can set breakpoints with a double-click on the left margin of the code window and step through the running web application. It even allows you to modify variable contents on the fly. You deploy the completed application from your workstation to the appserver by zipping the whole thing up into a single EAR file (enterprise application repository) and importing it via the server's http admin interface.
Would you use it today if you doing development or consider something else?
We would stick with WebSphere. Not only does the product work well, the consultant that IBM sent to help with the initial conversion was top notch. We initially budgeted for 2 weeks of consultation for training plus conversion, but he was happy to give me hands-on training by walking me through the actual conversion process. The whole thing was done in a week.
-John -- John Hester System & Network Administrator Momentum Group Inc. (949) 833-8886 x623 http://memosamples.com ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
