Area of Concern | Capabilities in Rational EGL Community Edition | Additional Capabilities in the Rational Business Developer products |
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General overview | You can develop services for Apache Tomcat. You can also develop Rich UI applications, primarily for Apache Tomcat. | You can also use the Rational Business Developer products to develop various kinds of programs and server-side Web applications, as well as reports and Java wrappers. The programs, applications, and reports can access data from a wide range of sources. |
Migration | Not supported | You can use the Rational Business Developer products
to migrate VisualAge Generator code and Informix 4GL code to EGL.
Two other IBM offerings have alternative migration support:
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Application development for Java™ Platform, Standard Edition (JSE) | You can develop Rich UI applications that are deployed to a simple JSE Web server. | In the Rational Business Developer products,
you can also develop the following logic that runs under JSE:
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Application development for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE) | You can develop the following kinds of logic
that is deployed to a JEE-compliant application server:
Support is primarily for partially JEE-compliant servers such as Apache Tomcat. When logic is being prepared for deployment to fully JEE-compliant application servers such as WebSphere® Application Server, no changes are made to the EAR file; you need to manually add content to application.xml. |
In the Rational Business Developer products,
you can develop the following logic, which is then deployed to a JEE-compliant
application server:
When logic is being prepared for deployment to fully JEE-compliant application servers, database-access details are written to the EAR file, to application.xml. |
Additional application development for IBM® i | Not supported | In the Rational Business Developer products,
you can do as follows:
EGL Runtime code for IBM i is also provided in each of the Rational Business Developer products. You
can use Rational Business Developer for i for SOA
Construction for
the following purposes:
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Application development for z/OS® | Not supported | In Rational Business Developer and Rational Business Developer for System z,
you can do as follows:
Those programs and services can access relational databases, files, MQSeries message queues, and DL/I databases. Runtime support is available with IBM Rational COBOL Runtime for zSeries®. Rational Business Developer for System z also lets you work efficiently on non-EGL code such as native COBOL and PL/I programs. |
Application development for z/VSE™ | Not supported | In Rational Business Developer and Rational Business Developer for System z,
you can develop EGL-generated COBOL programs for z/VSE batch and z/VSE CICS. Those programs can access
relational databases, files, and MQSeries message queues; and the
programs on z/VSE CICS can use Text UI for user interface. Runtime support is available with IBM Rational COBOL Runtime for z/VSE. |