Re: HTML and PDF Reports

["Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,
 
When you speak of Metadata is your definition of Metadata a Metadata
dictionary as is often found for a data warehouse or is Metadata for EGL
just another way of saying a REF file for all definitions for all
variables for all programs in an application/system?
 
Thanks,
 
Dave  

> > > Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 5/23/2008 09:36 >>>
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> > http://www.plutabrothers.com/PBDWeb/EGL/DebugMe.jpg 
> >   
> >     
> I have found "Jing" http://www.jingproject.com/ extremely simple to
use 
> to create a visual explanation of a computer topic.
>
> Perhaps you would too?  I'd like to see a narrated movie :)
>   

Ah, in my copious free time, Thorbjorn.  Actually, yesterday I
presented 
a day-long seminar on EGL to a group of IBM i developers, and their
jaws 
simply dropped.  If you take the time to actually understand the 
technology, it really is amazing.  The key is metadata - metadata lets

you define a structure once and then use it over and over.  You can
drop 
it on a browser page, and it paints the page.  Call an RPG program, it

converts to an EBCDIC data structure.  Expose it as a service, and it 
formats XML or JSON.

So I'll try to put together a simple video, as soon as I take care of 
some other obligations.

Joe