Re: EGL RichUI Was:Re: From RGP to ¿Java?

Again, thanks. Not a bad approach. In this particular case I have new apps to develop so the need to interface EGL and the Java Servlet isn't a high priority.

At the core here I have a need to develop about 10 "simple" CRUD apps that edit single tables and probably another 10 to 15 that have 1 to 5 sub-records (header-line). My original RPG experience in the 5250 world used a framework that would allow me to crank out a fully functional, edited, CRUD app in about 2 hours. Header/line models would take maybe 4-6 hours depending upon complexity. All in all, it was was a pretty productive environment (and it wasn't a commercial 3GL either, it was just a logically laid out set of RPG/DDS templates that made development easy).

I have sought the holy grail of a replacement framework that is both cross platform and productive (no need to go into the "why" of cross platform, it is just a requirement). So, I have looked at many tools/frameworks/languages and all come up short in one way or another. EGL is about as close as you can get. The web apps are easy to create and there certainly are a bunch of widgets that you can take advantage of to make the app pretty interactive.

So I stand at the threshold of moving on, finally, to creating these apps and RUI is what the users "want". However, the ease/speed of development of an EGL RUI app was a little bit of a disappointment when I looked at it so I may fall back to using EGL in a more "traditional" way. I was just hoping to move forward quickly with RUI applications for this particular set CRUD apps.

I need to explore EGL RUI one more time before I begin coding. Currently waiting for the small update that the update manager is installing for RBD 7.5.1.2 (a "mere" 769mb - I'd hate to see what a major "point" release would be!)

Pete

Joe Pluta wrote:

Pete, there's nothing stopping you from encapsulating your Java code in an EGL service and then invoking that service from RUI. EGL is very good about accessing Java. The only thing the service would do is to translate between an EGL record and the parameters that your Java routines take. The RUI would call the service passing the record, which would in turn invoke your functions, and life would be wonderful.

Joe

Thanks for that. I was afraid I missed something. In my particular case, different from yours because most of my business logic is in Java, my servlet methods, called mostly by submits on the web page, have model, view and controller parts but I can just invoke the controller directly with an Ajax call. With that structure I haven't had to touch any of my base code when adding an RUI layer which has simplified my development and allowed me to incrementally add more RUI to the application over time. I was just hoping that that would be the case with EGL.

I'll poke around the Cafe a bit and see what I can find as examples. It has been a few months since I kicked the tires.

Pete