Re: More on EGL - a new name

LOL Joe - for once I don't think you see what I'm saying. If I'm not being clear, mea culpa. I think we are agreeing violently.

You said nothing in that article about RBDE in that article - I am trying to help people know HOW to get the ability to USE EGL, now that the capability is not available in the basic WDSC packaging.

Others will glean what they have to from this - I'm done agreeing with you.

Vern

At 06:42 PM 5/9/2007, you wrote:

> 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


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