Re: Java and OO Concepts

Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:

Joe Pluta skrev:

It's just one more way Java (and OO in general) gets in my way as a programmer. That's why I really like EGL; it supports bidirectional parameters as well, even at the primitive level.

He he, I'll bite.

Why should EGL be different from any other proprietary IBM technology so far, which end up being deprecated and replaced with something else, so we end up with unmaintained and unmaintainable software components?
*That's* the hurdle EGL has to overwin in my opinion.

Persuasions are welcome :)

Sorry, persuading you is not my job. I was just relaying my opinion. I'm pretty confident I can create an application complete with thin client, rich client and web service interface to RPG business logic using EGL faster than you can in whatever development environment you choose. Throw in the fact that you can edit, compile and debug both EGL and RPG from the same workbench and it's a slam dunk in my opinion.

Personally, I see very few installations that don't rely on something proprietary. Dead technologies are all over, whether it's Struts or Visual Basic. Even your SQL syntax is subject to change or at least vendor lock-in.

One other point: EGL generates Java, JSP and JavaScript. In my architecture I only use a very thin layer of EGL-generated Java on the host (basically proxying between the service and the RPG code), and I could rewrite that by hand if I needed to.

Joe