RE: WebSphere/WebFacing development hardware requirements

> From: Martin Rowe
>
> We're investigating WebFacing, and at present the test apps are running
> on the developers pc (not deployed to the 400 yet). The most noticable
> thing so far is the speed (or complete lack of it) of generating the
> WebFaced app, and running it isn't much faster (though better on
> subsequent runs). This is on a 733MHz box with 256Mb RAM, which I know
> is underpowered, but by how much? What is the practical minimum config
> needed to get this working at a decent speed - or doesn't that PC exist
> yet ;)

Martin, I know I'm tooting my own horn here, but PSC/400 doesn't require any
PC.  The conversion runs entirely on the AS/400, and converting a program
takes just seconds on my little model 270.  You can do an entire system
overnight and be testing the next day with no sweat.  Customization can be
done using whatever HTML editing tool you're most comfortable with,
including a simple text editor.


> Also, once we do deploy, is there a minimum amount of memory required on
> the AS/400. The apps are being run against our dev box which has 1Gb
> currently. Production box has 6Gb so should be less of an issue I hope.

Again, with PSC/400 the requirements are very low, because:

1. It will run with WebSphere, WebSphere Express or Tomcat
2. It will run on a separate machine, and connect to the AS/400

So, you can actually slap an under-$1000 PC or a *nix box running Tomcat on
the side of your machine and completely offload the entire UI workload.

Joe Pluta
Pluta Brothers Design, Inc.
Developers of PSC/400
http://www.plutabrothers.com