http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/community/egl?view=blogposts Latest Blog Posts in EGL Café en Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:43:41 GMT Clearspace 1.10.7 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-19T20:43:41Z en http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/11/20/building-accessible-applications-with-egl-rich-ui When developing Rich Internet Applications, it is important to make the applications accessible to everyone. Due to the fact that EGL Rich UI applications are generated into standard HTML and Javascript, the applications comply with accessibility Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:34:09 GMT bsvihovec http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/11/20/building-accessible-applications-with-egl-rich-ui 2009-11-20T14:34:09Z 4 days, 20 hours ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/building-accessible-applications-with-egl-rich-ui http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1284 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-performance/2009/11/19/coding-for-performance EGL programs are transformed (we call the process "generation") to Java, COBOL, or JavaScript programs for deployment in a target runtime environment. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:22:54 GMT Paul_Hoffman http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-performance/2009/11/19/coding-for-performance 2009-11-19T19:22:54Z 4 days, 21 hours ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-performance/comment/coding-for-performance http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-performance/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1283 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/11/18/egl-dojo-widgets-for-rbd-7514-available Today we released the (0.7.1.1) EGL Dojo Widgets for RBD 7.5.1.4. These are the same widgets that were released in the EGL Community Edition (CE), just for RBD. Not to worry though, from this point forward all releases of EGL Dojo Widgets will work in ajax egl web2.0 rich_ui dojo Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:49:03 GMT gpapayia http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/11/18/egl-dojo-widgets-for-rbd-7514-available 2009-11-19T03:49:03Z 5 days, 13 hours ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/egl-dojo-widgets-for-rbd-7514-available http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1282 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/modernize-z-with-egl/2009/11/10/what-ptfs-are-required-for-the-rational-cobol-runtime-for-zseries-v601-as-of-010509 (updated for V7.5.1.4 and 7.1.0.4 - 11/10/09) cobol z/os ptfs Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:06:28 GMT markevans http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/modernize-z-with-egl/2009/11/10/what-ptfs-are-required-for-the-rational-cobol-runtime-for-zseries-v601-as-of-010509 2009-11-10T20:06:28Z 10 months, 3 weeks ago 11 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/modernize-z-with-egl/comment/what-ptfs-are-required-for-the-rational-cobol-runtime-for-zseries-v601-as-of-010509 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/modernize-z-with-egl/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1137 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-development/2009/11/09/rbd-7514-is-available Fix pack 7.5.1.4 is now available. It includes fixes in many areas of the 7.5.1.4 performance fixpack Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:32:01 GMT LisaLasher http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-development/2009/11/09/rbd-7514-is-available 2009-11-09T18:32:01Z 2 weeks, 22 hours ago 4 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-development/comment/rbd-7514-is-available http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-development/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1280 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/11/09/egl-ce-for-rbd-users Rational Business Developer (RBD) and EGL Community Edition (EGL CE) both allow you to more easily develop Web 2.0 applications using a single language, EGL. With EGL, you can create a rich internet application (RIA) without having to learn a multitude ce rbd project deploy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:10:03 GMT tdramsey http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/11/09/egl-ce-for-rbd-users 2009-11-09T15:10:03Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/egl-ce-for-rbd-users http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1279 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/10/19/debugging-your-first-egl-application In EGL CE you are able to debug both the Rich UI front-ends, as well as the Service back-ends. All debug sessions must begin with the Rich UI application. There are several ways to initiate a debug session, such as right-clicking a RUIHandler file and eglce debug debugger Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:41:39 GMT jspadea http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/10/19/debugging-your-first-egl-application 2009-10-19T18:41:39Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/debugging-your-first-egl-application http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1271 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/10/01/deploying-your-egl-projects-to-the-web While you are developing your EGL project, you can run it using the Preview tab and using the debugging tools. You can even try out services that you have written or ones from third parties. Testing your application this way saves a lot of time and deploy eglce tomcat Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:33:32 GMT tdramsey http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/10/01/deploying-your-egl-projects-to-the-web 2009-10-01T19:33:32Z 1 month, 3 weeks ago 4 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/deploying-your-egl-projects-to-the-web http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1268 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/2009/09/28/calling-rpg-from-egl-community-edition I have posted a video walkthrough demonstrating how to call an RPG program using EGL Community Edition. The video is available here. (Make sure you watch in full-screen, HD mode.) rpg video modernization eglce Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:17:23 GMT dan_darnell http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/2009/09/28/calling-rpg-from-egl-community-edition 2009-09-28T21:17:23Z 1 month, 3 weeks ago 10 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/comment/calling-rpg-from-egl-community-edition http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1267 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/26/how-to-properly-waste-your-time-using-egl Today, I wrote a game in EGL Rich UI inspired by the well-known web game called "Escape", "Escapa", "The Red Box Game", or whatever name the latest inspired copier decided to give before hosting it on their own homepage. I am still trying to find out who Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:17:41 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/26/how-to-properly-waste-your-time-using-egl 2009-09-26T19:17:41Z 2 months, 27 minutes ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/how-to-properly-waste-your-time-using-egl http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1265 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/24/developing-a-portal-using-egl-rich-ui-bending-the-laws-of-physics Why Portals? application_modernization Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:34:37 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/24/developing-a-portal-using-egl-rich-ui-bending-the-laws-of-physics 2009-09-25T01:34:37Z 2 months, 21 hours ago 9 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/developing-a-portal-using-egl-rich-ui-bending-the-laws-of-physics http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1264 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/2009/09/23/when-a-game-is-more-than-just-entertainment Since 1997 I have been licensing a version of the card game Klondike Solitaire to online gaming sites. I originally wrote the game in 1997 as a learning exercise. It was, for all intents and purposes, my first Java application. Earlier this year I worked rich_ui games java migration Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:38:36 GMT dan_darnell http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/2009/09/23/when-a-game-is-more-than-just-entertainment 2009-09-23T04:38:36Z 2 months, 2 days ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/comment/when-a-game-is-more-than-just-entertainment http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/action/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1263 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/21/egl-ce-project-structure-and-code-generation In EGL CE, the EGL project structure has been changed to combine and extend the features of the General Project and the Rich UI Project types found in Rational Business Developer (RBD). In RBD, a General Project would be used for Java, and a Rich UI Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:38:18 GMT bsvihovec http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/21/egl-ce-project-structure-and-code-generation 2009-09-21T17:38:18Z 2 months, 4 days ago 6 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/egl-ce-project-structure-and-code-generation http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1262 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/21/how-to-use-egl-ce-to-develop-a-mashup-of-jazznet-a-google-spreadsheet-and-bingcom-images EGL CE has recently shipped, and I decided to write a sample that showcases some of the useful features this new and exciting technology offers. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:59:58 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/21/how-to-use-egl-ce-to-develop-a-mashup-of-jazznet-a-google-spreadsheet-and-bingcom-images 2009-09-21T16:59:58Z 2 months, 4 days ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/how-to-use-egl-ce-to-develop-a-mashup-of-jazznet-a-google-spreadsheet-and-bingcom-images http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1261 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/15/iseries-devcon-podcast I have presented session at iSeries DevCon pretty much since the conference's inception, and this year is no exception. Of course, I'll be doing the heavy lifting on EGL and some other related topics, but there are lots more great speakers and sessions. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:06:28 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/15/iseries-devcon-podcast 2009-09-15T22:06:28Z 2 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/iseries-devcon-podcast http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1259 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/15/egl-ce-known-issues-comments-and-requests This blog post serves to keep an up-to-date list of known issues, observations, and feature requests reported by users of EGL CE. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:09:56 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/15/egl-ce-known-issues-comments-and-requests 2009-09-15T15:09:56Z 2 months, 1 week ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/egl-ce-known-issues-comments-and-requests http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1257 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/13/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-complete Okay, I've written the first-generation RPG proxy program. Basically the proxy's job is to extract the request from the EGL Rich UI runtime and invoke the appropriate business logic. rich_ui richui rest example egl soa rui rpg web2.0 i Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:13:13 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/13/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-complete 2009-09-14T03:13:13Z 2 months, 1 week ago 8 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-complete http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1256 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/getting-started-with-dojo-in-ce I thought I'd take a moment and build upon Theresa's post Getting started with Rational EGL Community Edition and talk a little about the new Dojo Widgets in the EGL Community Edition (CE). For those that don't know, the Dojo Toolkit is an open eglce rich_ui dojo Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:38:46 GMT gpapayia http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/getting-started-with-dojo-in-ce 2009-09-11T18:38:46Z 2 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/getting-started-with-dojo-in-ce http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1255 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/why-egl Over the last few days, I have been asked several times - "Why EGL?". It's a good question. For those of us that have been around EGL, the answer is obvious: spend more time innovating and less time fighting with technology . For those of you that are Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:40:31 GMT will.smythe http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/why-egl 2009-09-11T17:40:31Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/why-egl http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1252 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/how-to-use-css-with-your-egl-ce-programs In the following picture we show how easy it is in EGL CE to change visual attributes for any widget using the visual editor. In this case we show 4 buttons, each with different attributes defining distinguishing features. eglce css rich_ui Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:04:02 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/how-to-use-css-with-your-egl-ce-programs 2009-09-11T17:04:02Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/how-to-use-css-with-your-egl-ce-programs http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1253 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/09/11/a-css-validator-written-in-egl-rich-ui In an earlier posting I mentioned the importance of using external style sheets to separate look and feel from behavior in EGL Rich UI applications. In practice, some EGL Rich UI users have experienced challenges in keeping the CSS syntactically valid. web2.0 css rui Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:00:05 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/09/11/a-css-validator-written-in-egl-rich-ui 2009-09-11T16:00:05Z 11 months, 3 weeks ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/a-css-validator-written-in-egl-rich-ui http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1112 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/introduction-to-egl-projects For those of you who are learning about EGL, here is an overview of EGL projects to help you get started... eglce Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:42:16 GMT alicec http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/11/introduction-to-egl-projects 2009-09-11T15:42:16Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/introduction-to-egl-projects http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1250 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/09/10/web-security-and-why-egl-rich-ui-needs-an-ajax-proxy When developing browser applications, you will sooner or later want to call a service to download some data. That service itself is encoded in either SOAP or REST, and can reside at either the same server where the UI came from, or be at a completely Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:15:37 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/09/10/web-security-and-why-egl-rich-ui-needs-an-ajax-proxy 2009-09-10T19:15:37Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/web-security-and-why-egl-rich-ui-needs-an-ajax-proxy http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1251 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/09/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-update Okay, with expert guidance from Chris, I managed to engineer a Java-free RUI application architecture. It's not exactly simple. In test mode, any REST request goes through an invisible proxy in the workbench. The request that your service sees is not richui rich_ui rui i example business_logic rpg egl web2.0 soa Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:32:57 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/09/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-update 2009-09-09T23:32:57Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-update http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1249 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/09/getting-started-with-rational-egl-community-edition Once you download and run Rational EGL Community Edition, you'll notice the Welcome page which provides useful information about the product and links to tutorials, samples, and Web resources. eglce Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:44:18 GMT tdramsey http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/2009/09/09/getting-started-with-rational-egl-community-edition 2009-09-09T18:44:18Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/comment/getting-started-with-rational-egl-community-edition http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-ce/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1248