RE: RPG is Dead? Say it aint so!

Just curious, because I do a fair amount of JSF, does EGL come with
everything needed for large data sets - specifically, does it have paging
built into a component that would operate the same as a subfile? Note that
I use the dataTable tag, but out of the JSF box that doesn't work super well
without "hacks".

Apache MyFaces doesn't come out of the box with something like that so I had
to roll my own. I guess more of what I am fishing for here is wondering if
EGL generates code that is enterprise ready (read performs well)?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:48 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RPG is Dead? Say it aint so!

From: Joe Pluta

Well, the HTML side I might agree with simply because the nature of
any generated code is such that at some point you will eventually know
enough to add your own stuff. It won't be because the EGL generated
code is broken, but just that you want to add some spiffy JavaScript
that you downloaded from the web.

In fact, let's go a little further here. With PHP or CGIDEV or even my
beloved JSP, you MUST be pretty good at HTML just to use the technology.
With EGL, you can start out without any knowledge of HTML, and yet be fully
productive creating good looking web pages. All you need to know is the
VERY high-level EGL syntax (where the single line "get customers" loads an
array of records from the database).

Politics and pricing aside, for RPG programmers EGL is truly the easiest way
to get started in web application programming.

Joe


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