RAD J2EE thin client

Hello,

isn't there a build in feature in RAD 6.0 for developing standalone java clients? I had problems assembling all jar-files. Then it worked with WebSphere 6.0 but not in the 5.1, ...

I didn't try out the Websphere Application Client jet, does it integrate with rad?

Is there a good tutorial for developing standalone java or corba applications with the rad? The redbooks from IBM weren't helpful.
I try to develop an application that calls an EJB from C++, in the first step I am trying to make it work with java, ...

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

H. Manweg

Horst,
Yes. An application client is the easiest way to call an EJB from within RAD. For your C++ client, I think you need a web service API rather than just an EJB. This may give you an interface that is easier to call too.

Why do you think it is easier to call EJB's from c++ with webservices? I thougt accessing EJB's over CORBA is one advantage of EJB's?

Horst,
I would think that web services being language independent would be easier. Just an opinion though - I didn't think about CORBA.

This is why I said "may" instead of "will."

I still do not understand how to programm a standalone client with the WebSphere Application Client, ...

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v5r1//index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.base.doc/info/aes/ae/tcli_developthinclient.html

What are the following variables?
%WAS_CLASSPATH%
%WAS_EXT_DIRS%
%WAS_BOOTCLASSPATH%
%SERVER_ROOT%
%CLIENTSAS%

My goal is to avoid packaging a client with all the jars of a websphere runtime, ... I think it is really poor explained how to achieve this goal.

Can someone help?

Thanks

> What are the following variables?
Those are all variables pointing to different parts of the WebSphere installation. The easiest way to find out their values is to insert a print/echo inside the script when you run it.

> My goal is to avoid packaging a client with all the jars of a websphere
> runtime, ... I think it is really poor explained how to achieve this goal.
I don't know how to do that. I agree it is poorly explained.

Those variables are not in a script they have to be filled out, ... otherwise there would not be a problem.

Did you ever use the thin-client?

Originally posted by horst manweg:
Those variables are not in a script they have to be filled out, ... otherwise there would not be a problem.

Did you ever use the thin-client?

I used the application client (once) remotely. It was a nuisance to set up. I had a WebSphere instance on the box though and the classpath was able to refer to it.