Re: EGL vs. Java

Brian wrote:

I agree with your assessment and understand all the components involved but
I truly hope it is two separate products bundled for purchasing purposes as
the announcement letter states, "This software bundle will include IBM
Rational Business Developer and IBM Rational Developer for System i", rather
than a monolithic product with interdependencies like WDSC and RBDe
have now. The WDSC releases have always been way behind the
RAD/RBDe releases and I don't want to have to wait to take advantage of any
EGL enhancements.

Ah crap. You're absolutely dead on about this, Brian, and it's a point that entirely escaped my mind last week. It's bad enough we're a year behind base Eclipse; it would be very painful to have to wait for RDi releases in order to update RBD. And in fact, with the new stuff coming out in RBD it's essential that it be even easier to update RBD rather than more difficult.

Joe