Advice re: web-based development tools

From: aj (ronald_at_mcdonalds.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:08:22 -0400

I have been asked to convert several PowerBuilder (PB)
applications to run inside a browser as web-based
applications. My back-end database is DB2, and my server
OS is Linux. Java is the preferred language.

I have done some preliminary work using Tomcat, servlets,
JSP pages, the JSTL tag library, and Javascript. While
this works, it is very tedious compared to PB development.
I find that it takes forever to create screens w/ HTML
forms and to write all the update/retrieve logic behind
them.

In PB, I could just point at a table, a list of columns
would appear, and I could use my mouse to place the columns
or any other controls. I could also just call a save()
method, and PB would figure out what SQL was needed to
make my changes in the database.

Does anyone have any recommendations for tools that would
speed up this type of development, or perhaps alternate
ways of doing this?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Allen

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