Re: EGL: Integration or Migration?

Sorry - apparently I wasn't clear enough.

I was including such back-end component generation in the term "batch". I understand that I can create a back end component in RPG/ COBOL/whatever and call it from EGL that's fine. And from what you are saying, maybe I can use EGL to write that back-end piece and gen it in COBOL which is goodness (although not as good as in the days when I didn't have to pay for that extra compiler <grin>). I meant from the perspective of the UI.

In other words - am I always going to have an App Server/Java/JSPs in the mix? I have several customers where that would simply rule the tool out of the game. Maybe the Eclipse desktop environment will allow for an alternative at some point in the future.



Jon Paris

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On 5-Jun-08, at 6:21 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Jon Paris wrote:

Am I correct in assuming Joe that COBOL generation is only usable in
a batch program environment? If that is the case, then the COBOL
generation won't help with much of what folks want to use it for.

I haven't used COBOL generation so I hesitate to assume anything.
However, I can't see any technical reason why the generated code
couldn't be called. In fact, EGL has the concept of a Service program;
if that were extended to COBOL, then it would logically allow an EGL
JSFHandler to call an EGL COBOL Service.

Joe
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