IBM releases EGL Community Edition

By SearchSOA.com staff 10 Sep 2009 | SearchSOA.com

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With a wide range of languages and platforms to support, IBM has been looking for some type of programmer 'super glue' for quite a while. Recent efforts around EGL have come to fruition. IBM recently released EGL Community Edition, a free version of EGL (Enterprise Generation Language).

EGL is a higher-level programming language designed to simplify the creation of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). EGL allows developers to work with a variety of languages and platforms using a high-level interface. A simple command in EGL, for example, will generate Javascript, shielding the developer from the complexities of programming in Javascript itself.

EGL can also be used for modernization. It can be used to build enterprise mashups that combine data from different legacy systems, and users can also port legacy code to EGL, which may extend the lifespan of older applications.

Ben Margolis, who helped create EGL and is the author of Enterprise Web 2.0 with EGL, advocates EGL's ease of use. "Someone needs as little as a semester or two of computer science to use EGL," said Margolis. "It's designed to allow someone to go from zero to sixty pretty quickly."

An introductory slideshow available at EGL Café, IBM's online EGL community, gives an overview of the technology.

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