EGL and JDBC was Re: Marketing the platform

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Joe Pluta wrote:

> Note that I say you don't need any JSF/Java/JavaScript.  That doesn't
> mean that such knowledge won't help!  EGL is a true 4GL that generates
> 3GL code, namely Java, JSF and JavaScript.  The more you know about
> those technologies, the easier it is to understand the generated code
> when necessary (typically in debugging when something isn't working the
> way you thought it would).  But you can get started on it without that
> knowledge.

Can EGL use classes I've already written?  Or does it make those obsolete? 
I've spent a lot of time creating classes and factories for many of them. 
I feel that those classes follow a fairly good design and I'm quite 
pleased.  Does EGL make all that irrelevant?  I'm not trying to hang on to 
work for sentimental reasons, but rather I don't want to repeat work I've 
already done.  My factories do use JDBC, however I could write factories 
that call RPG programs using the java tookit instead.  Would EGL be able 
to use my classes and just create new factories for them, or is that 
looking at things the wrong way?

James Rich

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