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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 1, 2008

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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 directory. Reading the "Namespace Bindings" values in WAS requires use of JNDI lookup.


Writing external types for doing this is not a welcome solution, as developer expects "Enterprise Generation" from EGL. Rather a simple API can be provided in EGL for this.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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
    |     Jan 15, 2009

    Since EGL is a high level languate, it is generally not our philosophy to expose the APIs for the underlying technologies. Using external types is the EGL solution in this case.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 24, 2008

    Thank you, this request is under consideration and will be review by our software development team.

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