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IBM Offers Free Tool for Developing Web 2.0 Style Rich Internet Applications

By: cmswire.com

IBM (news, site) claims that EGL (Enterprise Generation Language) is the new COBOL, an easy to code business tool. But, we don’t recall people giving COBOL compilers away for free back in the sixties.

Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) has been incubating at IBM since 2002 and is a successor to CSP from the eighties and then VisualAge Generator. It was developed with the typical business application in mind and new capabilities have been added to support systems where the interface runs on the Web and data is pulled from other apps or invoked via services, i.e., somewhat similar to how Web 2.0 technology has evolved………[read entire story]