WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries : bringing new life into 5250 applications / [Aleksandr Nartovich ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nartovich, Aleksandr.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

IBM AS/400 (Computer).

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[United States?] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Part 1 Navigating the WebSphere maze

Chapter 1. What is under the WebSphere umbrella

1.1 Deploying the Web for e-business

1.1.1 What is a Web server

1.2 Adding dynamic content to Web sites

1.2.1 Non-Java-based applications and database serving standards

1.2.2 Java-based technologies

1.3 Developing and deploying Web applications

1.3.1 What is a Web application

1.3.2 The purpose and use of the WebSphere Application Server

1.4 iSeries: A flexible application server for the Web

1.5 The IBM suite of host/server access products

1.5.1 Methods to combine new Web applications with existing applications

1.6 Web-to-host integration tools comparison

1.6.1 Host On-Demand

1.6.2 WebFacing Tool

1.6.3 Host Publisher

1.6.4 Web Interaction wizard

1.6.5 Comparison table

Chapter 2. Creating applications for iSeries: A new set of tools

2.1 IBM WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries

2.1.1 ILE RPG

2.1.2 ILE C/C++

2.1.3 ILE COBOL

2.1.4 Application Development ToolSet (ADTS)

2.2 WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries

2.2.1 WebSphere Studio family

2.2.2 A new concept

2.2.3 Follow-on product for WebSphere Development Tools

2.2.4 WebFacing Tool

2.2.5 Web Tools - iSeries Extensions

2.2.6 Java Tools - iSeries Extensions

2.2.7 CoOperative Development Environment (CODE)

2.2.8 VisualAge RPG

2.3 More information

Chapter 3. New GUI framework

3.1 Eclipse: The start of a new era of tools

3.2 A new approach to the application development process

3.3 Components of the Eclipse GUI framework

3.3.1 Perspectives

3.3.2 Views

3.3.3 Editors

3.4 Development Studio Client features

3.4.1 Common features.

3.4.2 iSeries-specific features

3.5 Online help

Part 2 Installation and configuration

Chapter 4. Setting up the iSeries environment

4.1 Overview of the required software components

4.2 Configuring IBM WebSphere Application Server for iSeries

4.2.1 Installing and configuring the WebSphere Application Server instance

4.2.2 Starting the WebSphere Application Server

4.2.3 Creating and starting additional administrative servers

4.3 Installing and starting the IBM WebSphere Administrative Console on the PC client

4.3.1 Installing the WebSphere Administrative Console

4.3.2 Starting the WebSphere Administrative Console

4.3.3 Working with the WebSphere Application Server installation

4.4 Setting up and configuring the IBM HTTP Server for iSeries

4.4.1 Starting an administrative server instance

4.4.2 Creating a new HTTP server

4.4.3 Starting the HTTP Server (powered by Apache) instance

4.5 Verifying the installation

4.6 Starting WebFacing jobs

Chapter 5. Setting up the client environment

5.1 Installing WebSphere Application Server Administrative Console

5.2 Installing WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries

Part 3 Working with iSeries applications on a workstation

Chapter 6. Introduction to the sample applications

6.1 Overview of the Order Entry application

6.1.1 The ABC Company

6.1.2 The ABC Company database

6.1.3 Application files

6.1.4 Database table structure

6.1.5 Customer transaction flow

6.2 Overview of the Customer Master Inquiry

6.2.1 Starting the application

Chapter 7. iSeries extensions (plug-ins) in Development Studio Client

7.1 Introduction to using Remote Systems Explorer

7.2 Perspectives

7.3 Profiles

7.4 Connections

7.5 Subsystems and filters

7.5.1 Subsystems

7.5.2 Filters

Chapter 8. Working with CODE.

8.1 What is code

8.2 Connections to iSeries

8.2.1 Managing system connections

8.2.2 Using the CODE Communication Console

8.3 Managing your environment with Remote Systems Explorer

8.3.1 Subsystems and filtering

8.4 Creating object filters to select only source physical files

8.5 Editing the source code

8.5.1 CODE Editor

8.5.2 CODE Designer

8.6 Library list and compiling

8.7 Debugging ILE programs with Distributed Debugger

8.7.1 Starting the debugger

8.8 Getting help

Chapter 9. Introduction to VisualAge RPG

9.1 VisualAge RPG features

9.2 VisualAge RPG Language Reference

9.3 Programming with VARPG

9.3.1 Starting the VARPG Designer

9.3.2 The VARPG GUI Designer

9.4 Creating a simple GUI subfile application

9.5 Additional information

Part 4 Bringing your existing applications to the Web

Chapter 10. WebFacing Tool

10.1 Sample application

10.1.1 Using the WebFacing Tool to convert DDS

10.1.2 Testing your application inside Development Studio Client for iSeries

10.1.3 Creating your own styles

10.1.4 The user ID and password the application runs under

10.1.5 Exporting a WebFacing project

10.1.6 Deploying a Web application with WebSphere Administrative Console

10.1.7 Launching the converted application in a browser

10.1.8 Creating a file share in the iSeries integrated file system (IFS)

10.2 Security considerations

10.3 Hints and tips for working with the WebFacing Tool

Chapter 11. iSeries Web development tools in Development Studio Client

11.1 Introduction to design-time control

11.2 Developing the Web application

11.2.1 Using design-time control

11.2.2 Using the Web Interaction wizard

11.2.3 Testing application in Development Studio Client

11.2.4 Debugging a Web application with a host program call.

11.2.5 Exporting the Web application to production

11.2.6 Subfile DTC APIs

11.2.7 Example code

11.3 Program Call beans

11.3.1 Creating Program Call beans

11.3.2 Calling an iSeries program or procedure

Chapter 12. XML is everywhere

12.1 Why XML

12.2 What is XML

12.3 XML is important

12.4 The benefits of XML

12.5 XML in WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries

12.6 Editors

12.6.1 XML editor

12.6.2 DTD editor

12.6.3 XML Schema editor

12.6.4 XSL trace editor

12.6.5 XML-to-XML mapping editor

12.6.6 XML and SQL query wizard

12.6.7 RDB-to-XML mapping editor

Part 5 Appendixes

Appendix A. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"September 2002."

"SG24-6600-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

932363827