Correction time. WebSphere is not a thing of the past, and on IBM i it is
included with your operating system license. Now, I would not
necessarily use full blown WebSphere when starting out with Web Services.
There are many other options that the IBM i programmer will find easier
to consume then doing the heavy lifting them selfs.
The Integrated Web Services (IWS) support is part of the IBM i OS,
supported on 7,1 and higher. Allows for SOAP or REST based web services.
Web Site - [1]
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/iws/
Get the latest DG1 PTF Group and you have the most current support ( on
any supported release) This support leveraged the Liberty web container
along with JAx-WS and JAX-RS. The Web Admin GUI interface gives the IBM i
programmer a super easy way to create and host their Web Services.
Thanks Tim
Tim Rowe, timmr@xxxxxxxxxx
Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i
IBM i Development Lab, Rochester, MN
(507) 253-6191 (Tie) 553-6191
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/are/index.html
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web services primer
Date: Tue, May 3, 2016 9:38 AM
Jim,
Spend some time at Apache.org and take a good look at Tomcat or go look
at JBOSS both are free open source servers. WebSphere is virtually a
thing of the past. It makes no sense to spend the money on WebSphere
today.
Bob C.
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> On May 3, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Jim Oberholtzer
<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
>
>
> I have a customer that is about to take the plunge into web services.
They
> first need to choose if they use WAS 8.5 Express, IWS or TOMCAT. Some
of
> the IBM i instances have the Zend server so they would use that when
> available. Next they need a good primer about design and
implementation.
> I've found the basic web sites from IBM but I'm wondering if the group
has
> some suggestions on best practices and resources to use.
>
>
>
> The customer is at V7R1 now but will be at V7R2 very soon and
potentially
> V7R3 by end of year. Any comments on the IBM i environment as it
relates to
> web services would be welcome as well.
>
>
>
> While I can build and deploy a simple web service, I am far from an
expert
> therefore my request to you.
>
>
>
> --
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> Jim Oberholtzer
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