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Don Yantzi
Technical Lead
WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
IBM Toronto Lab


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Don Yantzi/Toronto/IBM
01/26/2007 12:31 PM

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Hi Don,

The WDSC versions are supersets of the Rational products.  The WDSC 
install actually installs the Rational products first and then installs 
the iSeries specific plug-ins ontop to make WDSC.  However, chances are 
that you have the standard edition of WDSC but they are using the 
"advanced" edition of Rational products (see note 2 below).  The advanced 
editions do have some additional Java tools for doing EJB development, UML 
and profiling.  But the editor, compilers, projects, actions will all be 
the same.

Here are the mapping:

WDSC 5.1.x includes WSSD 5.1.x
WDSC AE 5.1 includes WSAD 5.1.x

WDSC 6.0.x includes RWD 6.0.x
WDSC AE 6.0.x includes RAD 6.0.x

A few things to note: 

1.  WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) was renamed to Rational 
Application Developer (RAD) in 6.0
2.  The version of WDSC that is included with the RPG / COBOL compilers is 
the standard edition.  This includes WSSD and RWD.  The advanced editions 
of WDSC (you have to buy these) include WSAD (5.1.x) and RAD (6.0.x). 
3.  As long as you have the same versions (i.e. either 5.1.x or 6.0.x) 
then you can install WDSC standard and the Rational products on the same 
PC and it installs into the same workbench. 

Do you mind if I reply this to the mailing list?  This type of question 
comes up often.

Don Yantzi
Technical Lead
WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
IBM Toronto Lab





"Nitke, Don" <dnitke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
01/26/2007 11:23 AM

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Don,
 
Thank you very much for you feedback I have one more question though. Is 
there any differences (Java Programmer wise) between WDSCi 6.01 and WSAD 
(Rational). There is a belief at my company that Java programming for our 
iProduct Web Applications need to be programmed on WSAD (Rational) Tools 
instead of WDSCI because the WSAD is more rubust for Java functionality. 
Is this true and also are the project structures different or anything 
else like that.
 
Thanks
Don Nitke
 
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From: Don Yantzi <yantzi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Update JRE in WDSC

Hi Don,

There are 3 main Java Platforms: Java ME (Micro Edition), Java SE 
(Standard Edition) and Java EE (Enterprise Edition). The Java SE is the 
version used most commonly for standalone Java applications and this is 
what WDSC is run with. Web applications require Java EE.

If you create a Java project in WDSC then it will be associated with the 
Java SE shipped with WDSC. If you create a Web project then WDSC also 
associates the project with one of the embedded WebSphere Application 
Servers so it picks up the extra jar files to be Java EE compliant.

Don Yantzi
Technical Lead
WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
IBM Toronto Lab





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Don,

I have a question about the JRE's. We are currently using WDSCi 5.12 and 
notice that the compile (eclipse) JRE is not as complete as the server 
Runtimes version (ie 5.0 or 5.1). We added an new link to the server JRE 
to use the Crypto class for example. I can get you more specifics or we 
can take this off mail list but just didnt understand why this is. Im new 
to Java so if its a stupid question I apologize.

Don Nitke
Sr Pgmr/Analyst
Friedman Corp.

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From: Don 
Yantzi 
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 7:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Update JRE in WDSC 

Hi Karl,

WDSC 6.0.1 only supports up to Java 1.4. The next version of WDSC will 
support Java 1.5 (a.k.a. 5.0). In the meantime you could download the 
recent Eclipse 3.2 release and do your Java development there (not an 
ideal workaround I know).

Don Yantzi
Technical Lead
WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
IBM Toronto Lab

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Does anyone know how to update the JRE in WDSC to 1.5? The only options I
have are 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4. I want to utilize generic collections but these
are only available in 1.5. Thanks.