EGL Conference 2011 - Futures

EGL Futures and Strategy Will Smythe, IBM, Product Line Manager for IBM EGL Tools and Migration Solutions

Agenda
EGL mobile web
HTML 5
EGL and RAA
Road map

EGL Mobile Web
Businesses are needing to develop mobile applications to address the needs of its customers, users, and partners
Developing a native application has its advantages but requires deep skills in multiple platforms
The common platform across all modern smartphones is the Web
EGL mobile web enables development of mobile Web applications that take on look/feel of native device (iPhone or Android)
Mobile UIs developed just like “traditional” browser-targeted EGL Rich UIs (all code in EGL)
Unsupported EGL Mobile Web library now on the Café!

Mobile Visual Editing Support in RBD
Visual editor which supports WYSIWYG editing of web and mobile web applications
For mobile, a set of mobile-specific widgets appear on the palette (widgets can be dropped on and move around the canvas)
Preview tab shows a live, running version of the app
App can be launched in an external browser to simulate native look and feel
For iPhone – Firefox or Safari
For Android - Chrome
For testing, app can be accessed from browser in Android or iPhone emulator (provided by SDKs)
Visual editor included with the Eclipse-based Rational Business Developer 8.0.1 workbench

EGL Mobile Web
Current status:
Unsupported (available as a technology preview)
Based on Dojo 1.5
Plan (subject to change):
Move to Dojo 1.6 to pick up latest enhancements
Toolbar actions
Footer area
Other widgets

HTML5
HTML5 is the latest HTML standard
Enables richer browser-based applications
Local storage, geolocation, widgets, web sockets, etc * (note: some of these capabilities are not part of the official HTML5 specification)
Newer browsers support a subset of capabilities
EGL library available on the EGL Café today as a sample. Supports:
Geolocation – enables access to the user’s precise location (based on GPS or wifi)
Local storage – enables storage of artifacts on the user’s machine (useful for caching large amounts of data, etc)
Future updates (subject to change):
Support for HTML5 widgets (data/time pickers, etc)
Graphics/canvas
Web sockets
Simple/local SQL database

EGL HTML5 Samples

EGL Support in RAA
Rational Asset Analyzer provides deep application understanding for COBOL, PL/I, Java, etc applications
Code metrics
Impact analysis
Rule mining
Program flow diagrams
.. And more
Current status:
Joint prototype effort between EGL and RAA teams

Explore EGL Assets
Search EGL Parts by:
Name and name patterns
Attributes ( Type, length, Application)
View counts, lists, and detail pages
Follow links to navigate through an application, answering questions such as:
What program is invoked by a batch job or CICS transaction?
What subroutines are called?
What files are used?
Overview of EGL Assets, know what you have
Counts and Metrics
Understand Quality and Complexity

EGL Impact analysis
Determine what Parts are affected based on:
Changes to field declarations (Record, Dataitem)
Changes to a section of program source code
Changes to an function name or parameter
Determine impact across EGL, Database, COBOL, Java
Impact to EGL by changes in Database
Impact to COBOL/Java by changes in an EGL called program (and vice versa)

Application Understanding
Quickly understand code with little or no documentation, and relationships across the enterprise
Program Diagram
Structure Diagram
Control Flow Diagram
Batch Job Diagram

EGL Support in RAA
Delivery plans
No defined plan (preview in 2011 under consideration)

EGL Roadmap 2008 2009 2007
RBD V7.1
VAGen Migration (TUI, IMS, DLI, /MQ, Webtrans)
Portal Support
Usability Enhancements
BIRT Reports
System i Enhancements
Services Enhancements
EGL Rich Web on alphWorks
RBD V7.5 (currency )
Eclipse 3.4 / RAD 7.5
WAS 7.0
Portal 6.1
RBD V7.5.1
Rich UI / Web 2.0
REST Services
COBOL Runtime for VSE
RBD Extension for VSE
RDz EGL 7.5 RDi SOA 7.5
EGL CE 1.0
Free subset of RBD
Rich UI / Java support
2010
RBD V8.0.1
Currency
Roll up of CE features
Performance
Token licensing
EDT Vx
Open source subset of RBD hosted on Eclipse.org
Comparable capabilities to CE
RBD V.Next
Built on EDT
2011 8.0.x fix packs quarterly through 2011

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