Well, once again I find myself turning to the community of people who's advice I trust most!
I have a work related project which involves creating a simple customer feedback portal. Here's where it starts getting tricky...
1. Data used in the portal has to be read/written from several data sources including...
SQLite databases
Lotus notes databases
MySQL
2. We already have an established IBM Websphere portal and most likely anything developed would ultimately need to be integrated into the existing portal. (While there are many things I don't like about the current portal, integrating this new customer feedback component into the existing portal would also keep the corporate look and feel consistent.)
3. While we have a person who could develop this portal using IBM's RAD (Rational Application Developer), I think I will have a hard time getting much of this person's time to work on this project... Therefore, I'd like to try to start developing on my own. I think if I could start working something up and demonstrate the feasibility on a test server, then I could get some more resources toward this project.
4. I'm not a web developer by any means, but I can code to some extent in a variety of languages and am usually pretty good at working things out.
5. I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to be able to convince the people with money to buy me licensed copy of IBM RAD at this point.
So, can anyone make some suggestions about what would be a good development environment to use and which would possibly allow for the future move in to the Websphere portal.
I've looked at Eclipse a bit and see how working with Java figures in, but what I don't know is if it's possible to produce a whole solution right from within Eclipse.
Regards,
AmigaEd