All,
Am greatly intrigued by the promise of EGL and over the past week have:
installed WDSc V7.0, installed IBM Installation Manager V1.0, upgraded IBM
Installation Manager to V1.1, upgraded WDSc to V7.0.0.4 and installed
Rational Business Developer Extension. I've imported the samples and am
working my way through the excellent "QuickStart Tutorial" at
jsayles.com/ibm.
Configuring a database connection is giving me fits, though, and I hope
someone will be kind enough to point me in the right direction.
Q1) To complete the tutorial, I'd intended to use the Cloudscape 5.1 that
WDSc should have installed on my PC. Using |Preferences|EGL|SQL Database
Connection| The 'New Connection' panel insists on using the
"com.ibm.db2j.jdbc.DB2jDriver", but that class isn't in the C:\Program
Files\SDP70Shared\...\DB2jcc.jar" file or any other .jar file on my PC. The
IBM site below describes a workaround but, well..., I can't seem to find a
combination of driver class, class location and connection URL that makes
the Test Connection button happy. Can someone help me understand what needs
to go where?
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsadhelp/v5r1m2/index.jsp?topic=/co
m.ibm.etools.rsc.doc/topics/tdbconn_cloudscape.html
Q2) The next step would be to connect to our iSeries. Since Tomcat is
already in use on our small-ish 520, I thought it might be preferable to use
it instead of firing up WAS Express. A .ppt on the jsayles site describes
how to configure Tomcat once it is installed. How can I determine which
version of Tomcat is running on our box and whether it is recent enough to
work happily with EGL? Then, after Tomcat is added to the "Runtime
Environment" and the sample database is replicated to the iSeries, I assume
you'd have to reconfigure the "EGL SQL Database Connections" to point to the
new Derby manager?
Many thanks, JK
So in summary, is EGL perfect? No. Is JSF going to work for everything?
No. But if I can create applications like this in minutes, is it
something
that's going to help me put data in front of the C-level executives and
fulfill their information needs in a way that shows that the System i is a
modern, leading edge platform?
Yeah, I think so.
Joe
midrange.com
