iSeries - System i Web Development Solution

Industry leading WebSmart lets you rapidly create new, true web applications and modernize legacy ones.

WebSmart lets you modernize iSeries - System i apps easier and offers more integrated solutions to take you further. WebSmart offers these integrated solutions:

IBM has officially added WebSmart and BCD's integrated solutions to the iSeries - System i Developer Roadmap and has even signed an agreement with BCD to distribute WebSmart globally. Leading Industry Publications have consistently voted WebSmart to the top of their lists and have awarded it more industry accolades than any other solution. Now is a great time to give industry leading WebSmart a try.

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What is WebSmart

WebSmart is the Proven & Award Winning iSeries - System i multi-platform rapid Web development tool. WebSmart comes in two editions:

• WebSmart ILE lets you produce native iSeries-centric CGI applications that run in the native Apache HTTP web server shipped with all iSeries.
  
  
• WebSmart JSE lets you produce Java Servlet applications that run on multiple platforms- IBM, Microsoft, Linux or Unix, using Java web servers such as the free Apache Tomcat, IBM's WebSphere or BEA Weblogic.

Both editions of WebSmart let you extend or develop new web applications for any industry or application. You can create B2B, B2C and e-Commerce sites including on-line ordering, inquiries and maintenance programs, and implement browser-based or SOA (web services) applications. And WebSmart fully supports AJAX so you can build rich web content applications that behave like Windows apps.

WebSmart Highlights

More details at the At a Glance page »

Who Benefits

Programmers and management alike benefit from WebSmarts highly productive development environment. Whether you are part of a Fortune 100 or SMB organization, a one person shop or part of a larger team, you can immediately build new web applications or start transforming and modernizing legacy iSeries applications to real, professional-quality, database-driven Web applications.

Thousands of IT professionals and over 1,200 organizations have already discovered the joy and power of creating iSeries Web applications in a fraction of the time of hand-written or complex Java-based solutions. Even if you have never written web applications before, WebSmart lets you quickly produce true Web applications that take full advantage of all the latest technologies and Web programming techniques.

WebSmart is Available as an Independent Solution or as Part of a Complete Integrated Solution Suite

WebSmart integrates tightly with BCDs other solutions such as Clover (Query & Report Tool), Nexus Portal, SmartCharts and Catapult:

	Clover allows end users and developers to quickly and easily design real-time Web based iSeries reports and queries. It is not simply an add-on product to WebSmart. Moving back and forth between the core features of WebSmart and the reporting features of Clover is seamless. And all of the tools that are a core part of the WebSmart IDE are available to developers using Clover. With Clover you can actually write reports with little or no coding at all! Clovers own templates drive the report creation Wizards making it easy to design reports with breaks, subtotals, graphs, Excel spreadsheets and more. You can also relate many files (for example, join a header to a detail file) and specify just how you want the data sorted, filtered, and reported.
	Nexus Portal provides a controlled and secured framework that includes portals, for deploying WebSmart or non-WebSmart apps. The Nexus Portal includes robust Security, Executive Dashboards with KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) & ECM. ECM provides online indexing, searching and organization for reports and documents (with or without overlays) distributed from Catapult or published from other sources.
	SmartCharts lets you design and integrate real-time animated 2D and 3D bar charts, pie charts, executive dashboards, gauges and KPIs with drilldowns for clear visual representation of your data and business metrics.
	Catapult provides unattended report and document distribution in a variety of ways including Web based ECM (Enterprise Content Management).

IBM adds WebSmart to the iSeries Developer Roadmap

IBM selects WebSmart for the Better Tools and Better Portability categories -- giving iSeries users more reasons to choose WebSmart for Strategic Web Development. Read more »

"IBM Fully Supports BCD and the expansion of WebSmart throughout the iSeries Marketplace" - IBM VP of iSeries Marketing October 2005

"WebSmart overlays the central part of the iSeries Developers roadmap which is where 75-80% of our install base is today. WebSmart is one of the leading tools for developing Web applications in the iSeries space." - D. Fulmer, IBM WW Sales Exec.

Modernize Existing Legacy Apps using RDW

RDW is the RPG and DDS to Web Conversion component of WebSmart. You can use RDW to help incorporate discrete units of RPG business and programming logic and DDS screens into your WebSmart programs, or to migrate entire programs into WebSmart where you can modify them to make them work in a web environment. For example, you could convert a complex pricing routine from RPG to PML and encapsulate the resulting code in the IDE for use in any WebSmart program. Or if you are an experienced WebSmart programmer you can migrate an entire interactive application into the IDE and make the necessary modifications to make it work in WebSmart. Learn more about RDW.

WebSmart Promotions

• Special Offer -- FREE* RDW RPG-to-Web Conversion Tool
  The new RPG-to-Web Conversion component is sold as a WebSmart add-on module. Order WebSmart by December 31^st, 2006 and you will receive this add-on module for FREE*. Read more...
  
• Purchase WebSmart and get FREE* license of: Nexus Portal (the Award Winning iSeries portal which includes the Nexus ECM (Enterprise Content Management)). Read more... * Only maintenance is billed.

Need to jump start a Web Development Project?

Unsure about how to start a project? Let our professional team of WebSmart developers and designers help you make your application a success. Typical projects require very little consulting time to complete a fully working iSeries web application to your specifications. Read more...