Re: More on EGL - a new name

From: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx

I think we must be looking at the elephant from different perspectives.
From reading the IBM official stuff at developworks, it sounds like you
buy or order RDBE - you don't buy EGL.

You buy Rational Application Developer, you don't buy Java or HTML or CSS or
JSP or JSF. RAD is a development tool used to develop those languages.
WDSC adds support for RPG. The Rational Business Developer Extensions add
support for EGL.

I think IBM Rational is still
confusing us big time. The purpose of my posts is to help people fine the
blasted thing - to save them the time I just had to spend.

Well, we've had many posts here since early April. I also wrote an article
about the whole thing in March.

http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc/.6b4f0d0a

In fact I've written quite a few articles on EGL in recent months.

One thing I
know is, if I put "Enterprise Generation Language" in the search in
Software Access Catalog, version 7 is nowhere to be seen. To get it, I
have to use "Developer Business Extensions". And the assembly for that
does not mention EGL at all.

Just as Rational Application Developer doesn't have JSP or Java in its
title.

And if civilians try to get the entitled upgrade, whom do they call? What
do they call it?

Maybe you can make some sense of this for the rest of us

EGL is a language. It can be used to create applications. The EGL tooling
in RBD uses EGL specifications to generate either Java or COBOL.

Joe