RE: What you can do with WDSC and the iSeries

> From: Winkler, Marty
> 
>       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?

No, at this time I don't, Marty.  But I could quite easily using any of
the change management plug-ins for WDSC/Eclipse, including the fine
commercial products offered by various members of this list, or the free
plug-in connecting you to popular Open Source source management system,
CVS.


>       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?

I don't think it's necessarily required for a static HTML site; maybe
moreso for a site that uses servlets and JSPs.  Deployment of this site
from WDSC to WebSphere Express on my iSeries was dropdead simple -
export the EAR file, import it into WebSphere.  (It took an hour and a
half, but that's a different issue for a different day.)  And now I can
do hot-deploys at least of the static site - if I change something, I
know how to deploy directly to IFS of my iSeries.  That takes some
intimate knowledge of how WebSphere works on the iSeries, but it's
doable.  And that sort of deployment takes just seconds.

Joe