Monday, June 16, 2003

Websphere Portal Well, I worked on a long blog entry to describe the Websphere portal server demo, and clicked the wrong button and lost it all. Sorry. If you want details on it, please let me know. Suffice it to say that it looks pretty good. I didn't notice any features that were obviously missing. It seems to have everything that Novell's exteNd product has, with the addition of a powerful development tool, WS studio. It also integrates with existing systems. Again, email me if you want more info. 2:27:37 PM

Websphere Studio Demo Still at the IBM demo. Before lunch, they showed us the new Websphere studio developer tools. Based on open-source eclipse, WS studio is pretty impressive. They did side by side comparisons, or competitions between WS studio and MS Visual Studio. They did four tasks: Change a presentation layer Create an EJB Create and publish a web service Integrate with CICS and COBOL on the mainframe. Of course, it's a planned demo, but they did get the message across that WS studio is a one-stop development tool. Depending on the version you buy, you can use WS studio for systems integration development accross many platforms. One cool thing is that it is open source based, and Java development is done based on struts. It is an attractive tool, especially in light of the fact that we have a lot of legacy systems that could be web-enabled without migrating them off of the mainframe. 1:34:38 PM

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