http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/community/egl/ibmi?view=blogposts Latest Blog Posts in EGL for IBM i Hub en Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:59:59 GMT Clearspace 1.10.7 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-09-15T21:59:59Z en 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-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-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-i/2009/09/06/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-status It looks like I may have bitten off more than I can chew with this little project. I'm not completely certain, but it looks like the concept of an EGL Rich UI application using nothing but an HTTP server is not going to work. Unless I'm mistaken it example rich_ui richui i rui rpg web2.0 soa Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:30:30 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/06/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-status 2009-09-07T02:30:30Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago 8 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-status http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1244 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/04/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-notes Well, this has been an interesting little excursion. I really wanted to make sure that I tried to test the boundaries of the "Java-free" EGL/RPG architecture and as soon as I did, I ran into a little bump. rich_ui richui rpg rui egl i web2.0 soa rest Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:45:06 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/04/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-notes 2009-09-04T13:45:06Z 2 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-notes http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1243 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/01/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-preview Given how easy it was to create an RPG-only service, I've decided to kill two birds with one stone with V2R1. I'm going to create my first persistent widget, and I'm going to do it without any Java code (and thus, without the requirement for a web rich_ui richui rpg rui example i egl soa web2.0 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:34:48 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/09/01/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-preview 2009-09-02T03:34:48Z 2 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v2r1-preview http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1242 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/31/see-what-i-can-do-v2r0-reprise Okay, this was a lot easier than I expected. I'm not saying it didn't requier a little research; the QzhbCgiParse API is not for the faint of heart. But a little research, a little careful reverse engineering, and I was able to create a program that egl example i rich_ui rest richui rpg rui Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:59:02 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/31/see-what-i-can-do-v2r0-reprise 2009-08-31T21:59:02Z 2 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v2r0-reprise http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1241 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/30/see-what-i-can-do-v2r0 Okay, I'm now in the pre-flight phase of version two. I'll leave V1 alone for the time being, although I may circle back to it later in order to investigate other pure client-side issues. But I want to get right to the core of what's important to EGl rich_ui richui rpg rui business_logic example i soa rest Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:43:50 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/30/see-what-i-can-do-v2r0 2009-08-30T23:43:50Z 2 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v2r0 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1240 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/29/see-what-i-can-do-v1r1 Although still in the "hello world" stage, I think ther are a few basic web functions that I can verify before moving into the more rarified world of business applications. rpg richui rich_ui i egl example Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:47:17 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/29/see-what-i-can-do-v1r1 2009-08-29T19:47:17Z 2 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v1r1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1239 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/29/see-what-i-can-do-v1r0 Okay, I think I may have a slight glitch in the process here. I thought I would be able to add files to my blog posts, but I don't see how to do that. rui richui rich_ui egl i example Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:13:53 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/29/see-what-i-can-do-v1r0 2009-08-29T18:13:53Z 2 months, 3 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/see-what-i-can-do-v1r0 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1238 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/26/the-new-project-overview Okay, what's the new project all about? Well, it's got a whole set of rather ambitious goals, from creating killer apps for the i to comparing the productivity of EGL compared to PHP. rpg i rui egl php Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:36:11 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/26/the-new-project-overview 2009-08-26T20:36:11Z 2 months, 4 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/the-new-project-overview http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1236 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/26/the-new-project Okay, it's time to start the new project. My goal for this project is to provide a working foundation for everybody who wants to use EGL with the i, and especially Rich UI. egl i rui Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:08:26 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/26/the-new-project 2009-08-26T20:08:26Z 2 months, 4 weeks ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/the-new-project http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1235 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/25/well-that-was-fun So let's see here ... the last time I blogged was December of last year. That was a looooong eight months ago, folks. But now I really am back. The new book is in production with a release date of November 1st. It took a lot more effort than I'd rui egl i rpg book Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:05:25 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2009/08/25/well-that-was-fun 2009-08-26T01:05:25Z 3 months, 18 hours ago 4 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/well-that-was-fun http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1234 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/12/28/im-baaaaaack Happy (almost) New Year, everyone! Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:44:44 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/12/28/im-baaaaaack 2008-12-28T16:44:44Z 11 months, 1 day ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/im-baaaaaack http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1133 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/10/30/notes-from-iseries-devcon I haven't been posting this month because I've been really busy getting ready for iSeries DevCon . This is one of the best technical conferences, although you might consider me a little biased; in four days, I give one all-day jumpstart (this year on application_modernization business_logic egl i rdi rpg soa Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:13:36 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/10/30/notes-from-iseries-devcon 2008-10-30T14:13:36Z 1 year, 3 weeks ago 6 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/notes-from-iseries-devcon http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1064 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/09/14/rich-ui-tips-number-1-what-im-finding I can't think of a better title for this, but since I hope this becomes an ongoing series of posts, I want to make sure I stick a number in there. Maybe I should have made this one Number 0, because it's going to be sort of an introductory post, but application_modernization business_logic rui egl i rui_tips Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:49:32 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/09/14/rich-ui-tips-number-1-what-im-finding 2008-09-14T17:49:32Z 1 year, 2 months ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/rich-ui-tips-number-1-what-im-finding http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1062 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/09/05/egl-rich-ui-the-next-generation RUI-TNG? egl rui application_modernization business_logic rpg i rws rdi rbd Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:03:23 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/09/05/egl-rich-ui-the-next-generation 2008-09-05T16:03:23Z 1 year, 2 months ago 1 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/egl-rich-ui-the-next-generation http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1061 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/2008/08/18/building-new-applications-consider-agile As individuals and teams starting building new applications using new technologies like EGL, an opportunity also arises to change how you do development. Many teams inside IBM have started to adopt the Agile methodology and have already seen marked Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:34:19 GMT georgev http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/2008/08/18/building-new-applications-consider-agile 2008-08-18T17:34:19Z 1 year, 3 months ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/comment/building-new-applications-consider-agile http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1057 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/08/06/rich-ui-and-i-and-i Hello there! It's been a very hectic few weeks here with lots of projects (some of which I can tell you about, some of which I can't... yet). I haven't been able to post as much as I had liked but I hope to be able to fix that over the coming months. egl rui dojo rpg rbd rdi Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:25:06 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/08/06/rich-ui-and-i-and-i 2008-08-06T17:25:06Z 1 year, 3 months ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/rich-ui-and-i-and-i http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1050 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/07/15/taking-egl-and-i-to-the-next-level egl i rpg rui rws Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:54:56 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/07/15/taking-egl-and-i-to-the-next-level 2008-07-15T16:54:56Z 1 year, 4 months ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/taking-egl-and-i-to-the-next-level http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1042 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/06/16/egl-puts-the-i-in-iphone Although it's not really the focus of this entry, I just like saying that. It's such a good marketing phrase; I wish we'd see more like it. And we could, you know - the EGL team is putting together the kind of glitzy eye-catching technology that Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:59:25 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/06/16/egl-puts-the-i-in-iphone 2008-06-17T02:59:25Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/egl-puts-the-i-in-iphone http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1036 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/06/11/welcome-to-egl-and-i I noticed that I have been somewhat remiss in that I haven't actually written a formal "Welcome to my Blog" post. This is my first blog, so perhaps you can forgive me that transgression. (I told my good friend David that I had finally releneted and was egl i rpg business_logic application_modernization Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:22:41 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/06/11/welcome-to-egl-and-i 2008-06-11T05:22:41Z 1 year, 5 months ago 4 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/welcome-to-egl-and-i http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1035 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/06/05/captain-kirk-does-rsdc Well, of course it was William Shatner, not Captain Kirk, but it was still outstanding. Through a series of terrifically funny anecdotes, Shatner related the software development industry to the movie production industry, and often had the audience Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:57:59 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/06/05/captain-kirk-does-rsdc 2008-06-05T16:57:59Z 1 year, 5 months ago 2 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/captain-kirk-does-rsdc http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1031 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/05/31/getting-ready-for-rsdc It's been an interesting few weeks as Chris Laffra and I have been working on the scheduler application for RSDC. To give you a quick overview, I'm running the EGL part of the application on a Windows workstation (in fact, I'm running it inside of egl i rsdc rpg rui rws Sat, 31 May 2008 21:10:25 GMT JoePluta http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/2008/05/31/getting-ready-for-rsdc 2008-05-31T21:10:25Z 1 year, 5 months ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/comment/getting-ready-for-rsdc http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/egl-i/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1030 http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/2008/05/09/welcome rpg egl Fri, 09 May 2008 18:32:26 GMT yantzi http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/2008/05/09/welcome 2008-05-09T18:32:26Z 1 year, 6 months ago http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/comment/welcome http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/rpg-to-web-with-egl/feeds/comments?blogPostID=1019