January 13, 2010 | Volume 5 Issue 1

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

TOP STORY: Scripting Languages on i: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
FEATURED NEWS: IBM to Provide Financial Factoring Services to Businesses in China
MORE NEWS: 10ZiG Technology Introduces Next Generation Ethernet Terminal
WHITE PAPER: Business Intelligence on the IBM i: Finding Your Way  
FORUM: Will We Ever See RPGui?

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Scripting Languages on i: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Contrary to what you might think, scripting languages have a long history on the i, and a wide variety of options exist on the platform. This article compares and contrasts those options.

joe_plutaWritten by Joe Pluta

What's a scripting language? Within the context of this discussion, a scripting language is a programming tool that allows the developer to craft dynamic Web pages, especially pages using business data. Even more specifically, we're talking about server-side scripting languages: languages that run on the host to generate Web pages. This is an important distinction, because only server-side languages depend on the host operating system; client-side scripting runs in the browser and therefore is independent of the host. So this article is going to examine the various types of server-side scripting languages available for the IBM i.


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Featured News
 
IBM to Provide Financial Factoring Services to Businesses in China

IBM has announced that its lending unit has signed a financing deal with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and its distributor network that will begin the flow of cash and credit in an important economic development zone in China.


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