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swun2010





PostPosted: 2008-2-7 6:25:00 Top

java-programmer, Which WebSphere products Hi,

I want to develop some portal application with WebSphere. There are
quite a few modules/plugins for WebSphere. I don't know which ones are
useful. I downloaded the following WebSphere related products:
- WebSphere Application Community Edition Version 2 (for Solaris 10)
- Eclipse SDK (3.3.1.1) for Windows
- RAD_V7.0_Part(1-10)
I don't know how useful is RAD_V7.0.
I also found IBM website also have a product called "WebSphere Portal
V6.0". I am confused which products I need to download? The
requirement of my development is shown as below:
Mandatory:
- Develop Portal and Portlets.
- Interact with MySQL database engine (3.0)
Optionally:
- UML (able to reverse engineering).

Can anyone please tell me what modules I need to download? and where
can I download it?
I may be need to give a call to IBM to get a trail version of CDs that
include these application. But I want to know how I need in this
development.

Thank you very much in advance.
 
swun2010





PostPosted: 2008-2-7 6:34:00 Top

java-programmer >> Which WebSphere products Hi,

I want to develop some portal application with WebSphere. There are
quite a few modules/plugins for WebSphere. I don't know which ones are
useful. I downloaded the following WebSphere related products:
- WebSphere Application Community Edition Version 2 (for Solaris 10)
- Eclipse SDK (3.3.1.1) for Windows
- RAD_V7.0_Part(1-10)
I don't know how useful is RAD_V7.0.
I also found IBM website also have a product called "WebSphere Portal
V6.0". I am confused which products I need to download? The
requirement of my development is shown as below:
Mandatory:
- Develop Portal and Portlets.
- Interact with MySQL database engine (3.0)
Optionally:
- UML (able to reverse engineering).

Can anyone please tell me what modules I need to download? and where
can I download it?
I may be need to give a call to IBM to get a trail version of CDs that
include these application. But I want to know how I need in this
development.

Thank you very much in advance.
 
Arne Vajh鴍





PostPosted: 2008-2-7 6:35:00 Top

java-programmer >> Which WebSphere products email***@***.com wrote:
> I want to develop some portal application with WebSphere. There are
> quite a few modules/plugins for WebSphere. I don't know which ones are
> useful. I downloaded the following WebSphere related products:
> - WebSphere Application Community Edition Version 2 (for Solaris 10)
> - Eclipse SDK (3.3.1.1) for Windows
> - RAD_V7.0_Part(1-10)
> I don't know how useful is RAD_V7.0.
> I also found IBM website also have a product called "WebSphere Portal
> V6.0". I am confused which products I need to download? The
> requirement of my development is shown as below:
> Mandatory:
> - Develop Portal and Portlets.
> - Interact with MySQL database engine (3.0)
> Optionally:
> - UML (able to reverse engineering).
>
> Can anyone please tell me what modules I need to download? and where
> can I download it?

Websphere Application Server = Java EE application server, can run any
type of Java EE apps

Community Edition = free version of Websphere Application Server, it is
really a Geronimo clone

Websphere Portal = JSR 168 compliant portal application that run in
Websphere Application Server and is able to manage JSR168 portlets

Eclipse = IDE

RAD = Eclipse clone

----

Check the cost of Websphere Portal - unless they will give you something
cheap for development it will be a problem (the list price sounds like
the GDP of a small country !).

----

You will need a portal to develop/test/run portlets.

You do not want to develop your own portal software.

MySQL has a JDBC driver and can be used in apps running in
Websphere Application Server.

Arne


 
 
swun2010





PostPosted: 2008-2-7 6:35:00 Top

java-programmer >> Which WebSphere products Hi,

I want to develop some portal application with WebSphere. There are
quite a few modules/plugins for WebSphere. I don't know which ones are
useful. I downloaded the following WebSphere related products:
- WebSphere Application Community Edition Version 2 (for Solaris 10)
- Eclipse SDK (3.3.1.1) for Windows
- RAD_V7.0_Part(1-10)
I don't know how useful is RAD_V7.0.
I also found IBM website also have a product called "WebSphere Portal
V6.0". I am confused which products I need to download? The
requirement of my development is shown as below:
Mandatory:
- Develop Portal and Portlets.
- Interact with MySQL database engine (3.0)
Optionally:
- UML (able to reverse engineering).

Can anyone please tell me what modules I need to download? and where
can I download it?
I may be need to give a call to IBM to get a trail version of CDs that
include these application. But I want to know how I need in this
development.

Thank you very much in advance.
 
 
swun2010





PostPosted: 2008-2-7 6:48:00 Top

java-programmer >> Which WebSphere products On Feb 7, 9:35 am, Arne Vajh鴍 <email***@***.com> wrote:
> email***@***.com wrote:
> > I want to develop some portal application with WebSphere. There are
> > quite a few modules/plugins for WebSphere. I don't know which ones are
> > useful. I downloaded the following WebSphere related products:
> > - WebSphere Application Community Edition Version 2 (for Solaris 10)
> > - Eclipse SDK (3.3.1.1) for Windows
> > - RAD_V7.0_Part(1-10)
> > I don't know how useful is RAD_V7.0.
> > I also found IBM website also have a product called "WebSphere Portal
> > V6.0". I am confused which products I need to download? The
> > requirement of my development is shown as below:
> > Mandatory:
> > - Develop Portal and Portlets.
> > - Interact with MySQL database engine (3.0)
> > Optionally:
> > - UML (able to reverse engineering).
>
> > Can anyone please tell me what modules I need to download? and where
> > can I download it?
>
> Websphere Application Server = Java EE application server, can run any
> type of Java EE apps
>
> Community Edition = free version of Websphere Application Server, it is
> really a Geronimo clone
>
> Websphere Portal = JSR 168 compliant portal application that run in
> Websphere Application Server and is able to manage JSR168 portlets
>
> Eclipse = IDE
>
> RAD = Eclipse clone
>
> ----
>
> Check the cost of Websphere Portal - unless they will give you something
> cheap for development it will be a problem (the list price sounds like
> the GDP of a small country !).
>
> ----
>
> You will need a portal to develop/test/run portlets.
>
> You do not want to develop your own portal software.
>
> MySQL has a JDBC driver and can be used in apps running in
> Websphere Application Server.
>
> Arne


Hi, I forgot mentioned another product called "WebSphere Portlet
Factory". It looks like designer/developer can use this product to
create Portlets *on the fly*.

Thank you very much for the information.

 
 
Roedy Green





PostPosted: 2008-2-7 16:45:00 Top

java-programmer >> Which WebSphere products On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:33:39 -0800 (PST), email***@***.com wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Can anyone please tell me what modules I need to download?

IBM would not have written so many modules if they weren't useful to
somebody, so advice without knowing your project can't be all that
useful.

Websphere, last I looked, was not cheap. That implies an IBM salesman
should be happy to explain the uses of each module.
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