Re: Cool stuff that you may not have known was in i

I know you don't care about EGL, but every once in a while I'm going to chime in to let you guys know where the real future of the platform is, in my opinion. George Farr and I are presenting a session on SOA for the RPG Programmer at RSDC (that's right, an RPG session at the Rational conference), and in it I'll outline how RPG (and indeed any ILE language) plays a pivotal role in the next generation of applications.

Click on the link to see the slide where I show various Web 2.0 (maybe 2.5?) widgets that are easily created using EGL and that can be connected to ILE back end logic using a simple CALL instruction.

http://www.plutabrothers.com/PBDWeb/images/EGL-ILE-RUI.jpg

There is NO JavaScript, NO Java, NO HTML, NO scripting, nothing like that. You call RPG programs, pass data structures, use that data to execute mashups. Wrapping an RPG program as a service is a matter of a few lines of code. Pre-developed wodgets exist for major functions with more being added every day. Here's the code required to generate the Google map:

googleMap.showAddresses([address], [description]);

"address" and "description" are simple string variables read from a database.

So, you can mess around with trying to hack PHP scripts or you can use a Java framework or you can take code from Dreamweaver and substitute data using CGIDEV -- or you can use a high-level, debuggable language with a single IDE that allows you to do everything. Coming soon to an RDi-SOA workbench near you.

Joe