Re: deployment/debugging

Jon Paris wrote:

I looked back in the archives and don't see as many as I remembered (mismembered?) so I have to assume that some were on other lists.

This recent one http://archive.midrange.com/egl-i/200906/msg00009.html is an example of the kind of thing I mean though. And here's another http://archive.midrange.com/egl-i/200906/msg00000.html .

Another example of what it seems should be simple is this one which even the IBMers seemed unable to resolve http://archive.midrange.com/egl-i/200901/msg00006.html

As I noted before - many of the problems can be resolved if you have enough experience in the App Server/Java arena - but most RPGers don't have that.

Jon Paris

"so I have to assume some were on other lists". <chuckle> That speaks volumes.

Anyway, AFAIK, Pete's problem has been resolved. Pete has a tendency to push the edges of technology, and to his credit typically works through those issues.

The other two issues were Tim's. One was from January which has evidently been resolved since he asked other questions in June. The more recent issue is an environmental issue in one PC works but not another. Environmental issues are just as painful in PHP as they are anywhere else - for example, trying to run MySQL with the DB2 storage engine on Zend.

So in the end, we've got two resolved issues and an environmental problem. And for that, you insist that EGL is too hard for RPG programmers. Yet you seem to think that PHP, with its arcane syntax and Web 1.0 functionality is a good fit for RPG programmers.

You have a unique perspective, Jon.

And if you don't think PHP is severely limited functionally, just try to get Dojo and PHP to work together. Here's an example of the "easy" PHP language:

http://www.dojotoolkit.org/forum/dojo-core-dojo-0-9/dojo-core-support/bringing-php-mysql-and-dojo-together


Joe

P.S. Just so you know, I haven't looked at a line of Java generated from EGL for over a year now. The EGL debugger is phenomenal. It's really nice to work at a business level, and not have to putz around in Java. Of course even debugging Java beats debugging PHP.