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Values stored by EGL in request / session / application should be accessible using Java

Values stored in request, session, application scope by EGL handler should be accessible using Java code. Currently this is not possible. Web applications always use request, session etc to store state-data for a user. With the fact that EGL relie...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

CheckStyle support for EGL in RBD

EGL should support some static code analysis tool like CheckStyle, which is already available as a plugin to Eclipse. This will help large projects to automate quality checks for ensuring coding conventions and best practice compliance.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

JNDI Lookup Facility

EGL in its current form does not expose APIs for all J2EE standards. Most of the J2EE application requirements mandate the use of some basic J2EE standards like JNDI lookup. JNDI lookup allows to pick up some values / objects from a naming directo...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Availability of all Servlet APIs in J2EELib

J2EELib provides functions for only few APIs from HTTP Servlet specification classes (e.g. Request, Response, Session etc). As EGL uses JSF runtime in UI layer, often the JSF handler needs more APIs from HTTP servlet specification to fulfill some ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Availability of DB Connection Handle

SQLLib.connect() API in EGL does not provide any handle / reference to DB connection. The connection object remains implicit. Connect and disconnect happens transaperently to the developer. Our experience of using EGL for a large, complex project ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Invoking Stored Procedures Returning Multiple Resultsets

Currently EGL code can not call a stored procedure (SP) which returns multiple result sets. This is a major limitation as Enterprise Modernization team has no control over existing stored procedures of an enterprise application. They need to simpl...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Issue warning when we skip generation of dead code

Request to improve EGL validation to verify that every positional get statements (get next, get previous, ...) are following an open statement.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

Merge webServices client bindings generated by EGL with existing ones

Request to merge webServices client bindings generated by EGL with existing ones.This helps for example to keep a configured JSSE repertoire for web services over SSL on WAS 6.0.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

EGL Rich UI: Revise Organize Imports dialog

In the Organize Imports dialog, the egl.rui.widgets should precede those for DoJo, Silverlight, and other technologies. (In relation to Button, DoJo.widgets.Button is displayed first.) Also, one entry should be highlighted at all times.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

Bulk generation.

It should be possible to create generation lists to be used for bulk generation.As is, it is nearly impossible to manage a large EGL developer environment because the deployment manager must find and chose each and every item being part of a release.
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration