AVK

Lately i am consulting for a web application project that needs to be deployed on IBM OS/390 Websphere 5.0. Database is also on same OS(DB2 v7). First it took them a long time to define a simple datasource properly. Secondly they did a bad job of migrating our test database to production database. The database encoding they used is Cp1026 (IBM LATIN5), needless to say i opted for UTF-8 during development. Well to keep a long story short this weekend i have to modify the data access layer to do encoding conversion as it reads and writes. thanks to our flexible DAO layer, i need to edit a single class. i miss unit testing in those cases.
i will also use SUN's Application Verification Kit to validate the project to keep IBM's mouth shut.
A busy weekend awaits me.