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Summary. ~Lorraine Umkiteroopsi 5.Oct.02 05:38 PM a Web browser Applications Development All ReleasesWindows 2000
Firstly, thanks to both chaps for helping point me at the correct bits.
Lessons learnt:
USE NCSO.jar from the Domino\java directory of your R6 server. NCSOW.jar is NO longer required for Websphere.
DONT use NCSO.jar from the 5.0.8 java dev kit (despite earlier internet posts).
When your running "internet sites" on your server (the new Domino 6 stuff) as opposed to Web sites (the Domnio 5 stuff) - REMEMBER to add an IIOP site descriptor. Else your JSP system WONT be able to log in. This took two days of my time to work out, as I'd NOT read the admin guide. Sigh. See how much time can be wasted ?
I've been using Java 1.4.1 with Tomcat on the production server - and its visibly faster than using Java 1.4.0. In my humble opinion. Well worth the pain.
Lastly. My experience with Websphere Studio 4.0.3 has been pretty good. Converting a 100,000 photograph image shopping site from 15,000 lines of lotusscript into under 2,000 lines of JSP has been a REAL eye-opener. The JSP code in both Websphere and Tomcat has been more stable, faster, etc.
Websphere studio is pretty damn good. Dont let its 500mb size put you off. As I said earlier - its as easy to use as Visual Studio. Nice.
Tomcat ? Ouch. Its a lot *less* forgiving than Websphere. Things that wouldnt even make Websphere break wind would collapse Tomcat. So - whilst its open source, etc, and very, very good - given the choice, I'd go for Websphere just for the online debugging environment. (Bear in mind that most mortals DONT have a choice..)
The mere fact that IBM are now giving us $12,000 (USD) worth of Websphere advanced server to play with is *good* news.
How much of a change is it ? How long to get into ?
I took about two weeks of beating my head against the screen. The on-line help within Websphere is not as intuitive as the Visual C++ environment. And not even as good as Designer. So you spend a *lot* of time on google.
This was augmented by the tlcc.com course - "Websphere for terrified Domino developers" - which I'd recommend.
No courses. I'm scottish .. :-) (Actually, I'd qualify that. I'm a Sun Certified Java 2 programmer - so that helps. A lot!)
Once your into it, however, it flies.
So - what you waiting for ?
Hope this helps other poor lost souls following in my rather dubious footsteps.
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