Websphere Studio For Iseries (Professional Edition) - IBM i series Handbook

• There are no proprietary interfaces with the WebFacing Tool. It generates standard
Java components that can be leveraged and extended.
The major difference of the WebFacing Tool from the competition is that the WebFacing Tool
is a development-time conversion tool while most of the other tools are run-time, conversion
tools.
5250 intercept products are preferred when:
• The application is stabilized.
• Zero change to the application is desired.
• You can't change the application source.
• Preference is to enhance runtime output versus development time source.
The WebFacing Tool is preferred when:
• The business is still actively evolving the application.
• The developer is able to change the code to improve Web rendering.
• Preference is to enhance source versus 5250 data stream.
• Web application is performance sensitive.
• Web application is cost sensitive.
The WebFacing Tool (First Edition) supports display file DDS and does not support:
• UIM help or panels
• Office help
• OS/400 operating system screens or panels
WebFaced applications continue to run in interactive mode.

WebSphere Studio for iSeries (Professional Edition)

• IDE environment: WebSphere Studio Professional Edition comes with a full integrated
development environment for creating and managing Web development projects. The
IDE groups all of the files related to a Web site into a project and provides check-in
and check-out capabilities for the files. The IDE also provides a wizard to publish a
project to a Web server. The IDE can register any tool for any particular file type.
• What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing: The Page Designer provides "What-
You-See-Is-What-You-Get" (WYSIWYG) editing of HTML pages and JavaServer Pages
(JSP). The IDE provides wizards for creating SQL statements, JSPs and servlets from
SQL statements and JSPs and servlets from JavaBeans.
• Improved integration: WebSphere Studio has improved its integration with VisualAge
for Java. Now the customer can read classes, beans and servlets from VisualAge for
Java and write classes, beans and servlets to VisualAge for Java. The customer can
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