IBM Rational EGL Rich Web Support
A set of Eclipse plug-ins that allow you to develop Web 2.0 applications in EGL without JavaScript skills.
Date Posted: March 25, 2008
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Update: July 25, 2008
All widgets rewritten in EGL; better support for external CSS styling and for calling services; ability to deploy a rich UI application; improved performance. See details in the user manual at the EGL Cafe site.
What is IBM Rational EGL Rich Web Support?
EGL is a programming language for defining all application tiers, including data access layers, business logic, services, and user interfaces. With EGL, you can easily access data from a relational database and declaratively attach business rules to the result, thus ensuring a consistent, company-wide, reusable business logic. EGL also supports exposure of this logic and data through services, applying service-oriented architectures such as Web services and REST services.
With IBM® Rational® EGL Rich Web Support, it is finally possible to consume these services in a Web 2.0, Ajax-style user interface. By using one single language (EGL), business logic can be executed in diverse run-time environments, such as native COBOL services on System z®, Java™ on WebSphere®, or even a PHP bridge on System i®. The user interface is executed as rich clients inside a Web browser, using modern techniques such as Ajax and other Web 2.0 features. Applications can access relational data from a server and mash up the result in a browser in a unique and declarative approach made possible only by using IBM Rational EGL Rich Web Support.
How does it work?
IBM Rational EGL Rich Web Support is a set of Eclipse plug-ins that allows you to write Web 2.0 applications in EGL; these applications execute inside a browser as a native JavaScript application. The resulting application can be easily extended with new run-time environments such as Dojo, Flex, Silverlight, etc.
Further information, including a user manual on EGL Rich Web Support, can be found at the EGL Café. Learning resources and more are available at the EGL Rich UI Hub at the Cafe.
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IBM Rational EGL Rich Web Support was developed by the extended EGL team at IBM Rational. Customers, ISVs, and business partners also gave valuable feedback on early prototypes.
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