Joe, are you doing any presentations at COMMON next week? I have someone attending and already asked them to look at EGL while there so we know more about it and can make an informed decision. If you are I will be sure she attends one of your session. If hiding the complexity of java to business developers is EGLs role and it's tuned for iSeries deployment I may be willing to drop our java path and go to EGL with one nagging worry... will EGL end up like net.data... all the rage for a year or two and now it's hardly mentioned. Of course that's true of a lot of web development tools these days...
p.s. but this makes me wonder even more. If EGL generates java and EGL is in RDi SOA then the pieces needed for java development must exist in RDi SOA for use by EGL. It would mean that the SOA client has been built to prevent access to something that is already there.
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From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 3:57 PM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: WDSC changing to RDi
Mike Cunningham wrote:
Just noticed something else on this switch. RDi SOA, at a mere $2,000 per seat cost (still too much) or 1/2 that of the RDA product includes EGL which IBM is pushing for web development. Maybe this is IBMs way of saying "drop that java idea, we were wrong, you should now develop using EGL instead and only use java if you need J2EE"
EGL generates Java (and optionally COBOL). IBM thinks Java is very much
the answer, but that the Java language may be too complicated for
business programming (something I happen to agree with). EGL allows you
to take advantage of the portability and OO nature of Java while
programming in a procedural language.
In addition, EGL is specially designed to work with and take advantage
of the performance of the System i.
That is in fact the session I'll be doing with George Farr at RSDC in
June. We'll be showing how EGL is designed to take advantage of the
System i, and how its integration with ILE makes RDi-SOA a really
productive environment.
Joe
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