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Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
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Created by Guest
Created on Sep 24, 2008

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EGL Archive (EGLAR) file for dependent projects

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We are developing a large-size web application (1600+ screens and 1600 tables) using EGL and RBDe. Due to layered nature of the application architecture and screen-specific requirements, the number of files in project is further multiplied. Effective project size is of the order of 30000 files (including JSP, JS, resources, EGL, IR, Java, class etc). As a result the workspace is heavy and RBDe becomes very slow.

Splitting the project into multiple smaller sub-projects with (non-cyclic) dependencies, does not help much because currently RBDe requires all referenced sub-projects to be imported and kept open in the workspace, even if some of the sub-projects are read-only i.e. never changed. So the total number of files in workspace still remains same. With the huge volume of our project, it drastically slows down the performance.


A simple low-cost resolution is to provide a feature to include EGL Archive file (.eglar) to EGL build path of an EGL project in RBDe. The concept of EGLAR inclusion is similar to the inclusion of JAR in java build path. Thus the referencing (dependent) project will include both an EGLAR and JAR for the referenced project, eliminating the need to import, build, generate referenced (read-only) projects.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 28, 2011

    This RFE's Headline was changed after submission to reflect the headline of an internal request we were already considering, but will now track here.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 28, 2011

    Support for EGL Archive (EGLAR) files is now available in fix pack 8.0.1.2.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 16, 2009

    This enhancement is in plan for implementation in the near to mid-term timeframe.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 23, 2008

    As suggested by Paul Hoffman, Wipro would like to contribute by participating in the design review for this RFE.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 16, 2008

    We agree that this would be a desireable enhancement that could be used by many customers. It will be considered for implementation in a future release.

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Reduce loaded workspace projects by new "EGL Archive" file.

We try to align ourselves as much as possible to a 3-tier architecture.This results in an architecture where a main program calls many Called programs, that can other Called programs, that can ? In our EGL Architecture we've chosen to group the pr...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Delivered

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