Re: Web Services Solutions

From: richard@xxxxxxxxxxx

As usual, I love ya man, but I have to disagree.

Which would I rather work in ......  Big Bloated WDSC Client or
streamlined, easy to use Visual Studio environment.

To each their own, buddy.  I love WDSC and I personally find Visual Studio a
bit of a pain.  I also don't like the fact that you're tied to Microsoft
internals.  When I did some Web Services work in VS, I found that it used
the wrong syntax for an array in SOAP and when it blew up, there was no way
to fix it, because the code generation was proprietary!

Yuk!

Hmmmmm..... It's a hard choice.  OK, decision made.

Maybe for you.  Me, I like WDSC more and more every day.

I'll take MS any day of the week, especially when I can create cross
platform Java bytecode using VB, C# or J# or J2EE java. Pick your poison,
same dev environment.

See, I have no real interest in creating Java bytecode using VB -- that's
kind of like converting RPG to Java, a plain old bad idea.  And we all know
that J# is a joke.  So maybe C#, but that's really a preference thing; why
would I want to run C# code on an iSeries?

On the other hand, I can create a complete cross-platform J2EE-to-RPG
environment and code and debug the entire thing without leaving WDSC,
something you just can't do with VS.

VS is something you use when you don't want to code RPG anymore, and that,
my friend, is so bad a direction that it's not even "WRONG WAY", it's "NO
WAY".

I do use WDSC and Eclipse every day as well, but my preferences show :-)

Take the eye patch off and see the dark side Joe :-)

As I've said, I have no problem with writing .NET code that runs on the
workstation and works with the iSeries, but I have a real problem with
putting .NET code ON the iSeries. 

BTW: For all who are reading this, make sure to come to the February OMNI
event Joe and I are doing all day sessions.  Might even get us to have a
WWF smackdown if we get enough people to show up.

You'll never guess which session I'm teaching :-)

Yeah, it's going to be a great presentation!  I'll be teaching RPG
programmers how to be more productive.  Richard will be teaching you how to
use a new language <grin>.

Joe