Question for Modern Web Development with IBM WebSphere

[Rafael Morales]

Hi Kyle, Roland, Karl and Matthew,

I remember when I migrated from WAS v6 to v7, and all it was a disaster, because I was developing my JPS's with WebWorks (now Struts2), and all JSP's failed due to that WAS v7 doesn't support webworks. Now my question is, in this book can I find which frameworks and tools are actually supported, and which are the principal differences between versions of WAS.

BR

[Kyle Brown]

Hey Rafael - well, we do include a table almost like that in the book with regard to the JEE standards supported, but we don't cover all the frameworks that are supported but not part of the standard - there are just too many for that. Effectively, what this book is about is throwing away the old way of doing things and bringing your applications into the 21st century - moving away from Web 1.0 programming with Servlets and JSP's (we have one example that covers that in Chapter 2 just to show how the new Liberty Profile works) and move towards Mobile development with Web 2.0 architectures, REST development with JAX-RS and JavaScript development with Dojo, JQuery and other JavaScript frameworks.

Kyle

[Rafael Morales]

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your answer, I would love to have this book, because it would help me a lot in my job, because I am developing actyally an application for WAS.

From Mexico City

BR

[Roland Barcia]

They key here, is the UI frameworks have moves from server side rendering to client side rendering. As such, following the modern architecture in the book, it is probably a question of how well JavaScript frameworks work in a browser or mobile shell. The server drives API's across channels, weather you use angular JS, jquery, objective-c, or swift.