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I think I've been confused by the myriads of Rational download links from which to commence a download of RBD V8, presuming there is a trial version.
Any chance of a link being posted here?

Peter

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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, 22 November 2010 6:52 p.m.
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Great new Rich UI features in RBD 8

On 11/21/2010 10:22 PM, Peter Connell wrote:
Thanks Joe,

I have to agree that a framework is a more productive environment which is why I need to begin this journey.
I've just been in need of a little prompting.

In fact, I rewrote the IBM Net.data forum (when it was ditched some years ago) as a PHP website, using a text editor in CPAN, before Zend ever became a buzz.
I used Zend Core when first available on V5R3, but mainly to prove I could write "Hello World'. I haven't touched it since, probably because, when used as a procedural scripted language, the "keep it simple" deployment of web pages looks pretty much the same in PHP as Net.data and they ain't broke yet.

But, now that times are tougher, the priority is being able to demonstrate to the business that a web app can be delivered and maintained with as little effort as possible offering a good ROI.
That's where I see RBD 8 entering the play.

I'm pleased that Websphere appears to ride along with it, and while I must have missed picking up on any discussion on RDPi (whatever that is), I might give that a go as well.

Here's to short learning curves.

Thanks, Peter

RDPi is my shorthand for Rational Developer for Power System - RPG and
COBOL tooling for the IBM i (or whatever the official IBM name is).
Basically, it's the GUI tooling that replaces SEU and PDM. Like RBD
(the EGL tooling) and indeed all the Rational products, it's based on
Eclipse. You install it using IBM's Installation Manager. If you
install RDPi and RBD together, you have a full end-to-end EGL/RPG
development environment.

Joe

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