RSP RE: WebSphere Development ToolSet and a beginner

I have been thinking about the RSP product as well...  I'm torn about being
locked into the editor... But I really do appreciate the native rpg access
it provides, and I think the code is very easy to follow, if your an rpg
programmer...   I have used net.data a lot, for  the past 2 years....  (my
1st web language) and I found it easy to work with... But i'm not a fan of
sql, so I passed data back and forth via pointers, to my rpg programs, for
the files I was reading and updating...

But I have apps written with tomcat, and I like it as well...  but there is
something appealing to using true RPG code, in my web pages...  RSP looked
insanely easy..  But i'm not running a current enough version of apache to
give it a try... But I hope to apply the PTF next weekend so I can demo it.


Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McIntyre Don [SMTP:dnmcin@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:55 AM
> To:   Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject:      RE: WebSphere Development ToolSet and a beginner
> 
> 
> --- Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My only concern about this tool is that it's closed,
> > like RPG-CGI or
> > Net.data.  Learning this tool is not really giving
> > you any added skills
> > other than this tool, whereas if you learn JSP and
> > servlets, you've added a
> > broadly required skillset to your arsenal.  You're
> > stuck using their editor
> > to edit RPG, and you have to hope they keep up with
> > the latest and greatest
> > standards.  
> 
> I thought about that and agree, that's why I mentioned
> that I was planning on staying in the Java World. My
> problem here is that I'm the Lone Range, with the
> exception of 1 MS ASP & VB programmer,  with Java &
> Java Web experience.
> 
> I am hoping to get some of the other programmers,
> which are ex-COBOL mainframers, to the Web.  If it's
> easy, they may do it.  They have no intention of
> trying to learn anything new, but I was hoping that if
> I could get them on the web using an iSeries solution
> and a language they already know, then that could help
> thwart the Microsoft invasion. (Oh, by the way, if &
> when you start taking Java Classes, you will start to
> become a little anti-Microsoft Ha!)
> 
> If you need to get to the web fast, before you have
> time to learn Java, JSP, etc.  Then perhaps the RSP
> (RPG Server Pages) could help you understand scripting
> & web technology, while working with a language that
> you understand. But I certainly wouldn't, for myself,
> be interested in working with RSP,CGI, Net.data... as
> my only learned web technology.  
> 
> Don
> 
>  
> 
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