Re: Webfacing out, EGL in

David Gibbs wrote:

Joe Pluta wrote:

If this is your ongoing argument - that you can learn HTML, JavaScript and CSS, but EGL is too hard, then we really have no discussion point.

How much information is available for EGL? How much talent?

Lots of information, and lots of free training available. And I have to keep hammering this home: it's easy. Very, very easy. If you haven't done it,. you have no comparison.

Compare this to the amount of information and talent available for JSP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Not for business applications. I beg to differ. There aren't that many developers who know how to write applications that interface with RPG using stateful communications. Try to find one.

I would venture to guess that any web developer you hired, to develop the UI portion of a IBM i based web app, would know absolutlely ZERO about EGL and gobs about JSP, HTML, CSS, and JS. And I suspect they wouldn't be too keen on expending a lot of effort into learning a new, niche, development language.

Since EGL uses standard JSF for the UI, you're wide of the mark. Go out there and see how much information is available on JSF; it rivals other stuff. Sicne I use EGL primarily for the JSF interface, it actually makes it easier than standard JSF.

You're missing the point, probably because you haven't used the tool.

JMO, of course.

I have to get out of this conversation, because the ongoing gist is: "EGL is just too hard and too expensive to learn," from people who have never used the product.

Joe