Re: EGL vs. Java

["Aaron Bartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad Stone has one (www.bvstools.com).  Not sure if he is selling it or not
anymore.  Like I said in an earlier post, this move by IBM might make for
some good competition :-)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Brian
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:38 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] EGL vs. Java

Dave,

How hard would it be to roll your own PDM?  Maybe an opportunity for a
useful System i community open source project?

Regards,

BJ


On 2/1/08, Dave Shaw <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree with Tom.  I'll happily give up SEU, SDA, and RLU, but until
there's
> a graphical interface that provides sub-second access to thousands of
> objects or members without building a filter first, PDM is a very valuable
> tool.  You don't want to know how long it takes RSE to list the handful of
> source files (with, as I said, thousands of members) in our production
> source library on a simple drill-down.
>
> I'm eyeing this change with a bit of dread.  Our machines are P50s with
> roughly 150 developers.  I could see someone deciding that everyone gets
> ADTS only as a cost-saving measure.  It would be so much easier to argue
the
> case for getting RDi for those of us who want to use it if PDM wasn't part
> of the equation so that we would never need ADTS again...
>
> Dave Shaw