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Not that I have a strong opinion on EGL one way or the other (I've
played with it a little, don't really have much time), but I don't
know that I'd call it the next Net.Data.  IBM is working hard to
migrate their Informix 4GL users over to it.  If they are successful,
then EGL will have a decent sized user base.

Mike E.

On 8/14/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I took a class in it at iSeries DevCon two years ago.  IMO, EGL is the next
Net.Data and will most likely die the same death.  How many of you Net.Data
people that are vested are appreciating IBM's decision to drop it?

 Aaron Bartell

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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:37 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

Natthan, et al

Have you looked at IBM's EGL that is included in the WDSCi product? I have
only began working through the EGL tutorial but since you mentioned WebSmart
I thought this might be an alternative. As it is, EGL will generate Java or
Cobol code to implement the full application but what got me interested is
that it appears you can use EGL for developing the view and the controller
and hook it to RPG on the backend via the JT400 toolbox for implementing the
model. IBM held an EGL user's conference recently that had a session on EGL
and RPG but I wasn't able to attend and have not been able to find the
handouts from the session.

If anyone has worked with EGL and has opinions as to its viability for
developing web apps on the iSeries I would like to hear them.

Kind regards,

Brian


On 8/11/06, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The name "Ruby on  Rails" is quite appropriate, IMO.  Ruby could have
> been just another OO language  that faded into oblivion - like
> SmallTalk.  But, add a database interface, an  HTTP interface, scripts
> for generating shells for basic Web applications,  following a
> model/view/controller design pattern, and license everything under
> open source - it's like putting a language on "rails", where it can go
places,  so to speak.
>
> The part that  interests me the most at the moment is the idea of
> using scripts and  templates to generate basic Web components.  One of
> my colleagues created a utility  for running CL source members
> interpretively, as opposed to compiling CL source  members into
> programs.  We use it to automate the process of compiling, binding,
> and building ILE applications, which generally consist of a number of
modules  and service programs.
>
> One idea we've  discussed is using CL scripts for generating HTML and
> RPG source members,  providing a shell for basic Web applications,
> following a model/view/controller  design pattern, given just a few
> parameters like the name of the application and  the table or view that
needs to be maintained.
>
> A tool like  Websmart generates HTML and RPG source members for Web
> applications, but  requires significant training and understanding of
> a proprietary scripting  language, logic constructs, and a Windows
> based GUI editor and design tool to be  proficient.
>
> If you already  know RPG, you may not want to learn an additional
> higher-level scripting  language, just to generate RPG code.  And you
> may not want  to go back to a Windows based tool to maintain the
> application, and regenerate  the RPG code.  What if you could just
> edit a CL source member, and run a command  to generate HTML and RPG
> source members, providing shells for basic Web  applications?
>
> It's just an  idea.  Another approach we've discussed is having a
> Wizard, providing step by  step prompts, at the conclusion of which, a
> set of HTML and RPG source members  would be generated.
>
> It looks like Ruby  on Rails takes more of a command line approach,
> which is  interesting.
>
> Perhaps PASE and a toolkit  for system interfaces, similar to what
> Zend did for PHP, would be the  key to porting Ruby on Rails to the
platform.
>
>
> Nathan M.  Andelin
>
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