Re: Problem updating Rational Developer for System i for SOA Construction

Buck skrev den 23-04-2008 18:57:

I can understand why you would want to go to a more current Eclipse, being a Java developer. If you're interested in EGL, look at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/reglrws It's the alphaWorks IBM Rational EGL Rich Web Support page. I don't need EGL and will probably never use it, so most of what EGL offers is strange to me. Maybe you'll get some use of it though.

I have not found that many features in 3.3 or 3.4 which I was missing in the 3.2 in WSDCi, so it is primarily as the underlying abstraction has moved from "each unit must be a File" to "each unit must be an URL", which has made me look at how hard it would be to implement.

I am not interested in EGL - we do OPM Cobol and pure Java, and yet another language which is translated by a proprietary program is not relevant to us at the moment. Personally I've learned my lesson with languages - your mission critical toolchain must be open source so you can survive any political decisions of vendors

Would appreciate your report on how easy/hard it was to move from WDSC / Eclipse 3.2 to standard Eclipse 3.4.

Right now I integrate web stuff with Cobol using MyEclipse 6.0.1 and use WSDCi to grab spool files and IFS files from remote systems. Works ok.

The 3.4 stuff is just for hobby right now, but I'll let you know when I have something to show.