Re: Impressions of EGL - Part Duex

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:

Joe Pluta skrev den 25-05-2008 17:49:

And now all you want is a complete tutorial on building business applications in EGL. That's a lot to ask for, isn't it? <grin>

Depends on your point of view. I would never dare begin working with a language with inadequate documentation (unless explicitly told to) for business-critical applications, so this is a job for IBM.

The documentation is more than adequate to show you how to create JSF pages and how to call business logic, which is equivalent to the RPG and DDS manuals. There is no documentation in RPG that tells you how to write an application.

However, we would LOVE some easy glue (Plain Java is not easy) between OPM Cobol and webservices and all the other stuff, and if EGL would do that, I guess we would strongly consider it.
Since a working example is good documentation, would you consider sharing the source for your gauntlet application?

You'd have to clear that with IBM. Chris wrote the GUI part, and so IBM owns it. My hope is that we can indeed make all of this code open to the public. Not open source, certainly, but as examples. But really, I have I have a hard time justifying writing complete example applications for someone who won't even bother to download the free tools and try them.

And just so you know, EGL will very easily provide glue between web services and COBOL. That's the whole point of metadata.

Joe