Re: What you can do with WDSC and the iSeries

We manage our changes using TurnOver (naturally, since it is our own 
product).  TurnOver "captures" the changes as you make them in WDSC and 
allows you to promote those changes directly to your web environments. You 
can just setup QA and Production versions of your web site and promote 
changes through a normal path, along with any corresponding iSeries 
objects.  We also do this for WebFacing, so you do not have to redeploy 
all those objects each time you change a few display files.

If you do not use change management, it is possible to setup WDSC to 
deploy directly to your web servers.  You just define your various servers 
and then "Publish" your changes to the appropriate server.

Hope this helps,

Mark

PS - If you want to see another web application developed with WDSC go to:

http://support.softlanding.com/xdesk/

This is a demo site of our iSeries "Helpdesk" application.  You have to 
register to use the site since it is personalized, but we do not attempt 
to validate your info if you are concerned about your privacy.  If you 
enter a real email address then the site will send you email updates on 
any "requests" that you enter.  And of course it could also email you a 
forgotted password.  Other than that, it doesn't matter what you register 
with.

The application runs on WebSphere entirely on a single iSeries and uses 
Struts.  We manage the application using TurnOver.






"Winkler, Marty" <MWinkler@xxxxxxxxx>
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                 I am not doing web development at this time, but have a 
question.  How do you handle modifications to the web site?  Do you keep 
many levels of the same thing?
                 I understand the 'release' concept for commercial 
products, but for a company site it it really necessary to support many 
older versions of programs.   How easy is it to install a file and/or 
program change?

> ------------------------------
> message: 5
> date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:07:59 -0500
> from: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: What you can do with WDSC and the iSeries
> 
> If anybody would like to see what can be done on the iSeries with just
> the basic tools they give you, feel free to drop by the new PBD website.
> It was totally revamped, written entirely using WDSC5.1, in about 40
> hours total.
> 
> The site is www.plutabrothers.com.
> 
> And while the the site map still needs a little work, the navigation
> bars are particularly nice (I think), and are autogenerated whenever I
> change the web site layout.
> 
> WDSC is one slick package, folks, and everybody ought to learn it.  I've
> also got my first column coming out Monday on MCPressOnline
> (www.mcpressonline.com) covering the new version of the tool.
> 

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