RE: A live EGL demo application

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

It was helpful to try a live demo.  It helped me to better understand 
your your drum-roll posts about EGL and pairing EGL clients with RPG 
servers which seems like good architecture to me.  I monitored the 
client-server message interactions using Fiddler to better understand 
what was going on under the covers and did some stress testing via 
repeated mouse clicks on some of the buttons.

The part that was quite a bit off my radar screen was the 700K plus 
bytes of JavaScript client code.  In my eight years as a Web application 
developer I don't think I've written a total of 700K in JavaScript.  As 
I perused the code, it appeared to be generated, as opposed to being 
written from scratch.

From EGL discussions on midrange lists, I had the impression that EGL 
was primarily a server-side code generator that leveraged JSF, but the 
demo client led me to gather that EGL can be used to generate rich 
JavaScript clients.

I liked the iPhone metaphor, but one suggestion for Chris Laffra is that 
the UI would look better and be more intuitive if the iPhone behaved 
like a container instead of just a background image, so record lists 
remained within the boundaries of the iPhone, and scrollbars appeared 
within the iPhone.

Overall, it was impressive.