Visualage For Java For Iseries (Professional Edition) - IBM i series Handbook

VisualAge for Java for iSeries (Professional Edition)

VisualAge for Java includes the Enterprise Toolkit for iSeries. This tool kit includes:
• Toolbox for Java to provide access to iSeries data, applications, and system functions.
• Remote export, compile, run, and debug support to make it easier to deploy Java
applications on the iSeries server.
• Display file to Swing import tool to make it easier to create a Java, GUI front end to an
existing 5250 application.
• SmartGuide or wizard to generate the JavaBean for calling an existing iSeries
program.
• Formatting beans that have capabilities similar to those in a display file for entry fields,
labels, comboBoxes, and Jtable columns.
• iSeries attributes such as edit codes and error checking are provided.
• DFU-like beans: These beans with SmartGuides or wizards provide direct record level
access to DB2 UDB for iSeries via the classes in the Toolbox for Java. The wizard
connects to servlets for the HTML output or to Java's Jtable widget for GUI output. This
wizard replaces the Subfile SmartGuide.
• PDM-like beans to retrieve lists of iSeries object information and information from the
integrated file system. The beans support PDM's subsetting capabilities.
VisualAge for Java, Professional Edition plus iSeries Enterprise Toolkit addresses most of the
tool requirements for building portable, cross-platform, OO, and e-business applications.
The version of VisualAge for Java that is shipped with WebSphere Development Tools for
iSeries may not address all the Java development environments. There are two key reasons
for using VisualAge for Java Enterprise Edition:
• The customer may want to build Java applications that access IMS, Encina, MQSeries,
CICS, HOD, or SAP and, therefore, use the connectors that are part of the Enterprise
Edition.
• Support for Enterprise JavaBean development is not supported by the version of
VisualAge for Java that is included in WebSphere Development Tools for iSeries V5.1.
Developers require VisualAge for Java Enterprise Edition for EJB development. However, our
solution has been designed so that VisualAge for Java Enterprise Edition can be installed
over top of our version of VisualAge for Java. VisualAge for Java Enterprise Edition can be
purchased and installed for any developers who need to do EJB development.
Note: VisualAge for Java Enterprise Edition, a workstation-based offering, is priced per
workstation.
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