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WebSphere Studio covers all the bases

IBM's WebSphere Studio 3.5 helps create great Websites

By Tim Fielden, InfoWorld, 10/20/00

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Given the continuing e-commerce explosion, it's no wonder that corporations spend so much time and money looking for the perfect toolkit for developing dynamic Web applications. Of course, there are lots of choices out there; to complicate matters even further, your applications must be capable of communicating with your application server. But thanks to IBM and its new WebSphere Studio 3.5, the choices have been narrowed and the challenges lessened.

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WebSphere Studio 3.5

Business Case
WebSphere Studio provides everything you need to create and produce interactive Websites capable of supporting advanced business functions such as dynamic content and personalization.

Technology Case
Developers will appreciate this solution's capability of creating and managing applications that target specific browsers or pervasive devices. WebSphere Studio also encourages efficient Web design that separates HTML and server-side logic.

Pros

  • Integration opportunities with other applications
  • Helpful wizards for creating Java servlets and JavaServer Pages
  • Excellent bundling of complimentary products
  • Easy to use and highly intuitive


Cons

  • No significant drawbacks


Cost
,999 per seat

Platforms
Windows 95/98, Windows NT /2000

IBM; Armonk, N.Y.; (800)426-3333

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WebSphere Studio is more than just an HTML editor. It's a complete suite of tools capable of bringing all aspects of a Web development project together, from prototyping to programming. Whether you're a content author, a graphic artist, a programmer, or a Webmaster, WebSphere Studio has something that can help you.

WebSphere Studio can reduce the time and effort developers spend creating, managing, and debugging multiplatform Web applications, while also granting significant performance and portability advantages over alternative approaches such as CGI. Moreover, because WebSphere Studio enables multiple developers to work on a single copy of source code, it offers productivity gains to teams.

The product impressed us with its numerous additions and enhancements. We especially liked the VoiceXML editor, which offers a nifty way to voice-enable Web content and services: the Code Assist feature prompts you for valid tags and values as you're editing, making the process quick and easy. IBM has also included built-in support for the creation, management, and deployment of WML (Wireless Markup Language) and Compact HTML. In this way, WebSphere Studio offers excellent output capabilities for pervasive computing devices, such as handheld, wireless, and voice devices.

Furthermore, WebSphere Studio is remarkably easy to use. IBM has touted WebSphere Studio as the fastest way to add dynamic content to your Webpages. The product's wizards certainly bore that claim out in our tests: they were invaluable for creating applications that retrieved and updated information from our database, which used server-side JavaBeans. But even if you're not a Java expert, WebSphere Studio makes it easy to design highly complex applications. The package's step-by-step approach and subsequent generation of sophisticated servlet code puts very few demands on the developer's experience.


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