Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

Aaron Bartell wrote:

Hi Joe,

Is there a JVM required on the server side to make those portions of EGL
work?

Nope. It's in some ways easier to use a JVM-based tier for middleware (and that's the default), but it's not necessary.

In the end that is one of my hangups.

Why? If you don't have to write or maintain any Java code what difference does it make what your middleware between the browser and the RPG code is? Do you care what Apache is written in?

The other one is the EGL isn't
open spec/source yet - which makes it a very dangerous adoption for somebody
to go hook-line-and-sinker with it as their new development direction.

Sure, but the generated JavaScript is just JavaScript., and that's as open as you get. I wouldn't want to maintain the generated code, but that would only happen if EGL tanks. Since EGL is not i-specific, I'd say it's got a better chance than, say, Zend PHP for the i.

Other than those two things there are A LOT of cool things IBM has done
with EGL + tooling - I like the simplified syntax and the graphical
designer.

And at the end of the day the question is whether the benefits of productivity outweigh other considerations.

As is the case in any scenario, language war or not, it is always good for a
company to have options.

Which is why everyone should try EGL CE.

Joe