Evaluation of time...

[KubiaK]

Hi all,

How much time (in days) would you think be necessary and acceptable (for someone who is used to version 8 developement and knows nothing about V9) to build a little web-enabled application using AppServer and WebClient ? (eg : letting end-users be able to browse a list of the sports database's customers).

Thanx for your help !

 

[Dries Feys]

I would say, if you don't know anything about V9... 1 day, and we use the customer table as an example

 

[KubiaK]

1 day to understand how to configure the AppServer, to set up a Web Server and to set up a deployment with the bootstrap method ?!

 

[Dries Feys]

If nothing is configured at all, let's say 2 days in total...

Appserver configuration course is 2 days, and can be given in actually 1 day... In that course, there is also some explanation of SDO,...

 

[KubiaK]

And without course, considering you have to discover all by yourself, it should take a lot of time, no ?

 

[Dries Feys]

V9 isn't easy to understand, especially the adm2; but there is some good documentation on the net : URL=http://www.progress.com/v9/documentation/start.htm]www.progress.com/v9/documentation/start.htm[/URL]

I would advice you however, to follow some course, or to get a copy of some courses, so you have at least some documentation...

In V8, did you use SO, or did you do plain programming ?

 

[KubiaK]

Plain programming

 

[Dries Feys]

To make some simple query with SO; to configure appserver; and to do some customisation where necessary; and to integrate the demand as an example of a course; and if you can work 2 days full-time on it, with internet access (progresstalk or so :awink: ); I'm sure it will work fine...

 

[KubiaK]

Are you such a Radiohead's fan to be so optimistic ?

I suppose that when you know how to do it, it should take no more than two days, but I also want to understand what i'm doing so i also have to study documentations !

Nobody else to bring another point of vue ?

 

[MurrayH]

If you really want to understand what is happening I'd say 2 weeks. It tooks us about 2 person weeks of effort to understand the WebClient in the very first beta and we knew the AppServer inside out. There you go, thats the truth.

Murray

 

[KubiaK]

At least x2 as english is not my native language and as i have to document my work

Thanks for these answers

Kub

 

[MurrayH]

No worries