http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/community/egl/rui?view=blogposts Latest Blog Posts in EGL Rich UI Hub 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, 16 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-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, 9 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/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-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-rich-web/2009/08/05/using-iphone-to-access-cobolcicsvsam-cobolims-and-rpg I am sure that there is many ways to accomplish this task... rpg cics richui modernization web2.0 z/os egl i cobol cics cobol rui web service soap iphone ims Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:57:46 GMT RegiBarosa http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/08/05/using-iphone-to-access-cobolcicsvsam-cobolims-and-rpg 2009-08-05T21:57:46Z 6 months, 3 weeks ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/using-iphone-to-access-cobolcicsvsam-cobolims-and-rpg http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1195 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/06/17/richui-grid-tree-or-tree-grid-bom-example Remember the old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercial from the 1980’s? ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5_gTdqeUOI ) Well this is kind of like that. Instead of mixing peanut butter and chocolate, we are mixing Grid and Tree widget web2.0 widget richui rui grid egl tree clearblade Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:12:51 GMT esimone_clearblade http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/06/17/richui-grid-tree-or-tree-grid-bom-example 2009-06-17T20:12:51Z 5 months, 1 week ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/richui-grid-tree-or-tree-grid-bom-example http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1216 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/26/repositioning-egl-rich-ui-widgets The way a web browser arranges artifacts on a web page is sometimes confusing. By default, a web page arranges its artifacts in a top-down, left to right order. This is also true of EGL Rich UI widgets. Fortunately, EGL gives you an easily understood Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:52:35 GMT Brian_Farn http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/26/repositioning-egl-rich-ui-widgets 2009-04-26T12:52:35Z 7 months, 2 days ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/repositioning-egl-rich-ui-widgets http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1192 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/22/the-dilemma-of-choice-funny-picture Today, I just stumbled along componentArt.com. I have no affiliation with them, and never heard of them before, but I thought the following welcome screen succinctly shows the dilemma many people face when choosing a Web 2.0 user interface solution (the Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:10 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/22/the-dilemma-of-choice-funny-picture 2009-04-22T12:18:10Z 7 months, 6 days ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/the-dilemma-of-choice-funny-picture http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1191 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/12/egl-dojo-widgets-38-the-dojo-build-systems Late last week we released an early version (0.6) of the EGL Dojo Widgets on the Cafe. For those that don't know, the Dojo Toolkit is an open source JavaScript library for developing web-based applications. It's available for free from the Dojo web2.0 widget dojo rui ajax Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:43:48 GMT gpapayia http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/12/egl-dojo-widgets-38-the-dojo-build-systems 2009-04-12T15:43:48Z 7 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/egl-dojo-widgets-38-the-dojo-build-systems http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1181 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/08/egl-at-the-web-20-expo Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:14:27 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/08/egl-at-the-web-20-expo 2009-04-09T01:14:27Z 7 months, 2 weeks ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/egl-at-the-web-20-expo http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1179 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/08/extending-the-value-of-rpg-applications-by-migrating-them-to-egl Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:49:12 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/08/extending-the-value-of-rpg-applications-by-migrating-them-to-egl 2009-04-09T00:49:12Z 7 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/extending-the-value-of-rpg-applications-by-migrating-them-to-egl http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1178 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/08/the-novelty-of-the-egl-rich-ui-editor In an article that Joe Pluta wrote entitled " Welcome to the New RDi-SOA ", he talks at length about the EGL Rich UI editor and states that "The WYSIWYG designer is the only one of its kind". As the user interface designer and developer of the first Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:57:10 GMT Brian_Farn http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/04/08/the-novelty-of-the-egl-rich-ui-editor 2009-04-08T17:57:10Z 7 months, 2 weeks ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/the-novelty-of-the-egl-rich-ui-editor http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1177 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/03/27/egl-rich-ui-at-web-20-expo The Web 2.0 Expo is coming to San Francisco, California the week of March 30th. Chris Laffra has been working with Kapow Technologies to build an iPhone-based scheduler using EGL Rich UI for the Web 2.0 Expo. This application has been labeled The Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:55:27 GMT will.smythe http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/03/27/egl-rich-ui-at-web-20-expo 2009-03-28T03:55:27Z 8 months, 1 day ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/egl-rich-ui-at-web-20-expo http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1176 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/03/20/creating-javascript-widgets-egldefinewidget The egl.defineWidget function is provided as part of the EGL RUI Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:13:13 GMT bsvihovec http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/03/20/creating-javascript-widgets-egldefinewidget 2009-03-20T17:13:13Z 8 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/creating-javascript-widgets-egldefinewidget http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1173 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/27/egl-rich-ui-q38as During the week of February 23, Jon Sayles and Scott Pecnik have been teaching a try-out course on EGL Rich UI. I am doing the general Q&A session on Friday, and all the hard questions will be addressed then. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:52:52 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/27/egl-rich-ui-q38as 2009-02-27T14:52:52Z 8 months, 4 weeks ago 4 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/egl-rich-ui-q38as http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1167 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/14/new-feature-makes-it-easy-to-use-stylesheets-in-egl-rich-ui A new feature in RBD 7.5.1.1 makes it easy to reference a .css stylesheet from your EGL Rich UI widget or handler. Prior to this enhancement, there were essentially only two ways to reference a css file: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:06:34 GMT will.smythe http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/14/new-feature-makes-it-easy-to-use-stylesheets-in-egl-rich-ui 2009-02-14T16:06:34Z 9 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/new-feature-makes-it-easy-to-use-stylesheets-in-egl-rich-ui http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1156 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/09/honey-i-shrunk-my-own-bits-using-egl-rich-ui-to-compress-egl-rich-ui Web2.0 applications have a tendency to move presentation and business logic from the server to the browser. At some point, someone has to pay a price for moving all that code around. Browsers are good at caching HTML, CSS, and image files, but many round rui web2.0 compression Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:37:57 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/09/honey-i-shrunk-my-own-bits-using-egl-rich-ui-to-compress-egl-rich-ui 2009-02-09T15:37:57Z 9 months, 3 weeks ago 4 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/honey-i-shrunk-my-own-bits-using-egl-rich-ui-to-compress-egl-rich-ui http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1151 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/07/ground-control-to-major-tom-or-how-to-debug-service-calls EGL Rich UI makes it really simple to invoke REST or SOAP web services and to convert the message parameters and result into EGL Records. However, sometimes, the service does not work and you feel like you are stuck. In this blog entry I will share some Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:26:20 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/07/ground-control-to-major-tom-or-how-to-debug-service-calls 2009-02-07T20:26:20Z 11 months, 1 week ago 15 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/ground-control-to-major-tom-or-how-to-debug-service-calls http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1128 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/02/installing-smashproject-zero-into-rbd-751 In this blog entry I describe how to install and use sMash (also known as Project Zero) from within RBD 7.5.1. Project Zero is not part of EGL or RBD, but is an community project started by IBM to develop lightweight services using REST. Most sMash Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:30:41 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/02/02/installing-smashproject-zero-into-rbd-751 2009-02-03T03:30:41Z 10 months, 4 days ago 3 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/installing-smashproject-zero-into-rbd-751 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1141 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/01/23/consuming-smashprojectzero-services-from-egl-rich-ui In another post, I explain how to install project zero/sMash into RBD 7.5.1. In this post, I will describe a Rich UI application that consumes a set of REST services offered by the zero.employee.demo example that comes with sMash. Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:13:03 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/01/23/consuming-smashprojectzero-services-from-egl-rich-ui 2009-01-24T01:13:03Z 10 months, 4 days ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/consuming-smashprojectzero-services-from-egl-rich-ui http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1142 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/01/23/the-cafe-aint-no-diner-we-need-a-simple-menu Many EGL Rich UI applications are migration targets from a legacy desktop application developed in VisualAge Generator, PowerBuilder, VisualBasic, or similar technologies. Personally, I think menus have no place in web2.0 applications. Just go find the Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:57:46 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/01/23/the-cafe-aint-no-diner-we-need-a-simple-menu 2009-01-23T21:57:46Z 11 months, 1 week ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/the-cafe-aint-no-diner-we-need-a-simple-menu http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1130 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/01/11/choosing-your-event-handlers Let me be the last person to wish you a Happy New Year! widget rui Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:45:52 GMT gpapayia http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2009/01/11/choosing-your-event-handlers 2009-01-11T20:45:52Z 10 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/choosing-your-event-handlers http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1139 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2008/12/30/keeping-rui-handlers-simple-and-independent One nice design feature of EGL Rich UI is that UI components can be organized into self-contained, independent units. This makes it easy to reuse components in different applications and within different parts of the same application. Infobus, which was rui infobus grid Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:54:29 GMT will.smythe http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2008/12/30/keeping-rui-handlers-simple-and-independent 2008-12-31T00:54:29Z 10 months, 4 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/keeping-rui-handlers-simple-and-independent http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1134 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2008/12/19/using-grid-behaviors-to-filter-out-content Grids are powerful widgets, and with the support for behaviors that we added, it is possible to style the widgets exactly how you want it, replace cells with complex widgets, do drag and drop, etc. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:48:36 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2008/12/19/using-grid-behaviors-to-filter-out-content 2008-12-19T17:48:36Z 11 months, 1 week ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/using-grid-behaviors-to-filter-out-content http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1131 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2008/12/11/you-are-making-me-dizzy-with-those-nested-grids In an earlier blog post , we showed how grid cells can be replaced with checkboxes and dynamic editors. In this exercise we will go even further and add a nested grid inside a grid. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:30:43 GMT ChrisLaffra http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/2008/12/11/you-are-making-me-dizzy-with-those-nested-grids 2008-12-12T01:30:43Z 11 months, 2 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/comment/you-are-making-me-dizzy-with-those-nested-grids http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-rich-web/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1123