RE: Support of Visual Age...

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Joe Said;

>>Yes, unfortunately.  IBM's stated direction is to move to an overall IDE
that supports everything.  It's supposedly based on the Eclipse product,
http://www.eclipse.org/.  Personally, I love VAJ, but if you're picking a
new standard, I don't think VAJ is the way to go.  Not that I recommend
JBuilder, either, but that's just my opinion<<

That's not quite right.  VAJava is not going away,  The development
environment is being made more coherent with Eclipse.  You now get
EVERYthing (all compilers, the Web Tools including VAJava) with the iSeries
now.

I think it is a huge misnomer to think that VAJava is going away.   It was
a standalone function before and was very crudely integrated with WebSphere
development tools for example.

Things are a LOT better than they were.


Mike make sure you get the right info about it.  The Eclipse project is
going to be great.  BELIEVE me.   Imagine Integrating Code400, Green Screen
Development, Web Development, Java, etc into one tool that knows what the
different parts are?

We have been waiting for this along time( finally a real path not to use
SEU anymore)

It is MUCH more inclusive than Jbuilder will ever be.

IMHO

Visit some other references about it.  Like
http://www.webspherepro.com/wphome/

http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/   and others

John Carr