I was curious about what was announced
about the next version of EGL (Enterprise Generation Language). EGL v7 will be
bundled with the Rational tools, as usual.
So what’s new in v7:
Full WebSphere Portal and Portlet creation.
Eclipse rich-client support provides a native desktop operating
system look and feel, along with all of the features supported in Windows,
Linux or UNIX user interfaces, including drag-and-drop support.
I have heard rumors of other things, but
that’s already pretty cool. Now let’s see if I can do portlets and embed them
into JBoss Portal…
Thus Bob Cancilla is an iSeries guru (this
is an AS/400 guru), he admits that learning EGL is fairly easy: “EGL can be
easily learned by existing RPG, COBOL or Visual Basic programmers”. This is
also true for Informix 4GL users, who will find some similarities in the
statements.
Resources:
Bob Cancilla's article IBM Systems Magazine, March 2006.
