Re: WDSC vs. RDi

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

So...are LPEX and RSE dependent on Windows? And if they aren't, what is?

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Gibbs wrote:
>  > Michael Ryan wrote:
>  >
>  >> Depends on how much WDSc is in RDi I suppose.
>  >>
>  >
>  >  From an System i / iSeries developer perspective, the bulk of WDSC is
>  > in RDi (as far as I can see).
>  >
>  > As far as I have been able to tell, the stuff that's been removed from
>  > RDi that was in WDSC was mostly unneeded to do host application
>  > development (web editor, etc).
>  >
>  > BTW: This thread now belongs in the WDSCI-L list
>  > (http://lists.midrange.com/listinfo/wdsci-l) and I'm crossposting this
>  > message there.
>  >
>  Boy, the semantics here are really tricky.  The bulk of WDSC was not
>  System i development.  Because it was built on top of RAD, it included
>  (but was not limited to <grin>): HTML editor, JSP editor, CSS editor,
>  JavaScript editor, web site designer, XML editor, web application test
>  environment, and on and on.
>
>  In fact, all that was in WDSC that was System i specific was RSE and
>  LPEX, and that really was a fraction of the package.
>
>  Now, as far as pure green screen development goes, RDi does indeed
>  contain those piece that WDSC had.  However, it's my contention that
>  WDSC was far more than a GUI version of PDM and SEU.  For a brief
>  shining moment, WDSC was the only true multi-tier IDE out there.  You
>  could start with a simple HTML web page and build it up to a
>  fully-featured AJAX-enabled web application using RPG business logic,
>  and do it all inside the IDE.  So from that standpoint, a whole lot of
>  WDSC is not in RDi.
>
>  It's a matter of perspective, certainly, but it seems to me just a
>  little bit backward to once again segregate the green screen developer
>  from the rest of the development world.  I understand the mathematics of
>  it, but I still liked when even a long-time RPG programmer could, if
>  they so desired, fire up a web services tutorial inside of WDSC just to
>  see what it did.
>
>  Joe
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