Developing Web 2.0 Applications with EGL for IBM i

Targeting Web 2.0 IT professionals and developers, this important resource provides essential information on IBM's Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) and the exciting new EGL Rich UI for the IBM i platform. The first half explains how the EGL Rich UI takes advantage of the powerful EGL syntax to provide increased flexibility while designing complex interactive user interfaces from the ground up. This can allow for building Rich Internet Applications that take advantage of popular frameworks such as Dojo and services from Google, all integrated together with EGL Rich UI's built-in widget library. Following is an exploration into harnessing IBM i, the new open and advanced business application server, through EGL's ability to make simple connections from rich clients to back end business services.

Joe Pluta is the founder and chief architect of Pluta Brothers Design, Inc. and has been writing about the IBM midrange since IBM System/3. He has written extensively on EGL as a blogger on IBM's EGL site, the EGL Cafe, and is the author of several books, including E-Deployment: The Fastest Path to the Web, Eclipse: Step by Step, and WDSC: Step by Step. He lives in Palatine, Illinois.