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Pat,
WebSphere is just another tool for delivering dynamic web content. You can certainly use CGI which has a much smaller learning curve than Java but PHP is also a supported option now (on V5R3 and newer systems) and there are a lot of 3rd party tools for web development. Also, IBM is supporting CGIDEV2 (which competes with Brad's tooling and I think Bob Cozzi also has something similar). Net.Data is also an option but I would choose PHP over it if I were starting from scratch today.
Before you start using these tools, it would be well worth the effort to learn about how HTTP works (this also helps with setting up HTTP servers which is why Professional Apache 2.0 covers this topic) and write a few simple web programs that don't use any of the available frameworks just to get a good understanding of what's going on. It's also a good idea to get an understanding of how CGI works since all of the communication between a web app and the HTTP server works basically the same way. BTW, HTTP and CGI are pretty straight forward and as long as you don't dive too deep into them (at least when you are starting out) shouldn't take much time to get up to speed with.
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