Re: Trial for RDi SOA

Joe Pluta wrote:

Guillermo Andrades, CPI Software wrote:

meanwhile customers escaping to visual studio and the arms of microsoft,
all or main of this affliction for IBM not improving RPG with events and GUI
programming.

I don't understand this. IBM has given you every tool you need to create the best GUI applications out there.

Please, go to http://www.laffra.com and try out the scheduling application. It's 100% EGL front end and 100% RPG back end. No gimmicks, no Java required, and it's better than any PHP or .NET application (and a lot easier to write, especially *real* back end processing).

Event processing, Web 2.0, sophisticated graphics.

And it runs on an iPhone!

Joe

Joe

Is there a way to see how the front-end of this was developed? Is EGL a code generator where you just drag-n-drop controls onto your page? I ask out of my ignorance of what EGL offers for front-end development and because I took a peek at the source behind this page and see that it is about 15,000 lines of javascript code. I'm assuming that was auto-generated for you somehow. Also, I think statements like "No gimmicks, no Java required, and it's better than any PHP or .NET application (and a lot easier to write, especially *real* back end processing)" are a bit over the top. This may be true give your experience (which is very well respected), but for web development I don't believe there is only 1 true path to success.

-Jim