Re: EGL vs. Java

Joe Pluta wrote:

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:

We have looked at HATS, others have looked at VARPG, and I am not the decision maker but even I as a newcomer has a general feeling that you cannot DEPEND on these things being there for you in X years. That makes me and my very conservative colleagues very reluctant to even LOOK at these smart new things. We do not have time to invest heavily in blind alleys.

I agree with this sentiment, Thorbjørn, but here's the difference. The tools you're talking about are completely System i-centric. That includes the venerable Net.Data, which was as powerful a scripting language as many of the new generation.

Net.Data ran on Windows, Unix, z/OS and i/OS:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/net.data/

'Net.Data, a full-featured and easy to learn scripting language, allows you to create powerful Web applications. Net.Data can access data from the most prevalent databases in the industry including DB2, Oracle, DRDA-enabled data sources, ODBC data sources, flat files, and web registry data.

Net.Data reached its end of support date on September 30, 2004 for Windows and UNIX. No further support of any kind will be provided by IBM for Net.Data. The successor product for Net.Data is IBM WebSphere Application server. Customers who use Net.Data are encouraged to migrate their Net.Data applications to the WebSphere platform. Net.Data on System i is still supported. Net.Data on z/OS is supported through DB2 for z/OS Version 8, but not for Version 9.1 or later.'