RE: RE: [WDSCI-L] WDSC 4.0 Machine Requirements

["Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Buck,

>
> Hi Mark!
> I agree with everything in your note but in the interest of brevity
snipped
> much of it out.
>
> The big problem is the bundling.  As positioned, it is to be all things
to
> all developers.
>
> Green screen people think of WDSc as the follow on to Code.  Java people
> think of it as the follow on to VAJ.  It is at the same time both, and
> neither, being a work in progress.  Until it is complete, no faction
(web,
> 5250, Java only) will be satisfied with a collection of parts being sold
as
> an integrated development environment.
> --buck

I guess I just tend to look at it more optimistically.  VAJ was originally
a tool for developing "fat-client" Java applications, and they later tried
to make it into a tool for developing Java-server applications.  For those
of us that only want to do the latter, WDSc is already much better than
the old combination of VAJ and WebSphere Studio.

As for Code/400, I think it will be a part of the package for quite some
time simply because there is a lot of code there to rewrite.

I do agree, and have said for some time, that IBM should be more "upfront"
about who this package is aimed at.  As I stated previously, in my opinion
it mainly exists today for those of us that are doing web development with
the iSeries.  While there will be some people doing traditional 5250
development that like it, most will be unhappy until they add more
features and polish.

Mark