Re: What's the latestthinking ofthe besttwo orthreewebdevelopment languages/environ...

I think your best bets are PHP or Java.

On Java, I would suggest JSF (because of similarity to ASP.net -- particularly when using IBM's tool), Grails, or Project Zero/WebSphere sMash. (The last is a new product from IBM that promises rapid development for Java, but it doesn't run on IBM i....actually, come to think of it, it runs PHP, too).

On PHP, I would suggest going with the Zend Framework (free download from Zend.COM).


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Dave Odom
Sent: Thu 8/7/2008 6:14 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the latestthinking ofthe besttwo orthreewebdevelopment languages/environ...

Superb points. How about PHP to start with then?

Dave

"Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> 8/7/2008 14:35 >>>

The web was born before windows, in the mainframe. The star for web
standars is Unix. And you can mix old Unix, modern Unix, Linux, free
bsd, IBM i, zOS, etc. without problems.
If you "standarize" in windows you have to stay all windows, all same epoch.

Walden H. Leverich wrote:

Dave,

It simply amazes me the Web/Windoz world is SOOOOOO far behind in

standardizing >languages and development environments.

I'm _really_ confused by that statement. I would say the exact opposite
is true, and the i is far behind. I guess if you mean there are many
options, then yes, the web/windows world is far behind as it has many
more options than i.

IF, and I grant it's an IF, you standardize on the MS stack, it's a
really standard stack from top to bottom with a great integration story.


-Walden

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