Re: EGL Install

Thanks Joe;

I appreciate your explaination.  Sounds like something I'll look into 
more.

I have been interested in websphere for a long time, and now at this 
company, I am finally getting the opportunity? to use it, and in that 
framework consider myself a "newby" although I have been programming RPG 
for 15plus yrs.

I have been on this site, being a quite "listener" to the comments and 
discussions going on.

I am getting the impression, although websphere has been around a long 
time, it's still way behind the effeciency of using plain ole 
"greenscreen" rpg.

You know the questions, how do I do this, how do I do that, why doesn't 
this work... kind of thing. 

Comments from anyone.

Darrell Lee
Information Technology




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Ugh

What's EGL?

Well, EGL is a generation tool that builds web applications in a very
high-level language that can access SQL or other data sources (such as MQ
Series).  You can write the business logic in EGL and it will generate 
Java
code.

However, the way I use it it's a Java-free WYSIWYG browser designer that
makes it simple to call RPG programs for business logic.  You create
something called "Rich Data", which at the lowest level are intelligent
fields with things like editing and UI attributes pre-defined.  You can 
then
combine those into records.  Records can be dropped onto a JSF (JavaServer
Faces) page and they will paint themselves, and you can also pass them to
RPG programs as data structures.

No Java, and very little HTML is required to build functional 
browser-based
applications using RPG business logic.  Then you can hand the JSF page
(which follows industry standards) to a web designer who can make it 
pretty.
And not only that, but WDSC provides VERY powerful template capabilities
that allow you to assign your basic corporate web standards ahead of time.

The way I use it, as sort of an SDA for the browser, is something that can
be learned in a very short time and you can be productive almost
immediately.  Done correctly, you can even write Ajax-enabled 
applications.

Joe