Re: IBM not investing in i5/OS was: iSociety

On 18-Nov-07, at 10:30 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I really only did mean that you will never have to code a line
of Java if you use EGL, since that's always been the rub with JSP Model 2.
You may WANT to for various reasons, but you will never have to.

Joe - do you have any idea why you are at odds with Bleddyn (sp?) on this score? He has been a huge supporter of EGL and yet he was pretty definitive when I saw him speak in the UK that without their intimate knowledge of Java and JSPs they could not have made EGL work in the real world. Is the current version so much better than V6 which is I believe what most of his experience was based on. Or ... ?

Despite the fact that I liked VA Gen and EGL looked good, I have not spent more time on it in part because I _don't_ have the depth of Java etc. that you and Bleddyn have and have neither the time or desire to obtain it.

Jon Paris

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