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Who Says Web 2.0 Is Hard? Modernize Your
Applications Without Needing a PhD in AJAX
Chris Laffra
RBD Product Architect, IBM Rational
laffrac@us.ibm.com
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Oct 21, 2008

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1. Web 2.0
2. Simple
3. Extensible
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What is Web 2.0?
 An important trend in delivering software applications
 An Enabler for richer web applications
 New business models
 Peer-to-peer user participation
 New technologies
 Interactive filtering, presentation, data entry
 A combination of core technology components
 Rich user experience (maps, grids, animation, D&D, etc)
 Loose-coupling, composite applications via reuse and “mash-ups”
 Standards (SOAP, REST, JSON, Atom, etc)
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Enterprise Web 2.0 Business Scenarios New opportunities for
value creation are
emerging based on
innovative
technologies such as
Web 2.0, social
 Improve access to information for Customer Relationship Management
 computing, virtual
worlds, and more
Improve information and reporting for financial analysts
Insurance policy / risk / claims assessment (Insurance)
 Exposure of business events from operational systems (Banking)
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Provide wealth-management staff with dashboard of client portfolio (Banking)
Improve visualisation of complex data (Petrochemical, Life Sciences)
 Stimulate product and service innovation with partners (Finance, Telecommunications, Travel)
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 Exploit regulation and compliance information (Medical, Finance, Utilities, Pharmaceutical)
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 Marketing to individuals by engaging consumers through social networking (Retail, Banking)
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 Improve buying experience through rich media online shopping (Retail)
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 Aggregation of legacy interfaces
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Web2.0 sounds pretty good, eh? But…it is hard!
WSDL DOM
JSE
Servlet XML
VSAM SWT JCA
HTML
AJAX
EJB Struts MQ
CSS
RPG JSF
RPG
JavaScript JMS
COBOL O/R
SQLJ CL
JSP JDBC
IMS SOAP CICS
 Developers must learn numerous different technologies
 Cross-platform programming require totally different skills
 Must keep up with constantly changing Web 2.0 technologies
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1. Web 2.0
2. Simple
3. Extensible
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EGL Rich UI
 EGL Rich UI supports creation of RIAs by providing:
 Simple programming model
 Productive development tools
 Comprehensive widget library
 Web services and Mash-ups
 Extensibility
 All using one language: EGL
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Simplicity and Flexibility offered by EGL Rich UI
 Data Access
Create new data manipulation
 Inspect a database and import a record
 Tooling will generate CRUD operations
Use existing programs that interface data via s simple CALL
 Services
Simple declaration (using “service” keyword offered by EGL)
Easy deployment (WSDL and Java is generated)
End-to-end is especially simple
 UIs
Declarative layout, visual editor, CSS, simple event handling
Define/import widgets, to add to the palette
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EGL Rich UI Benefits
Single Language Rich User Interfaces Mobility
• EGL in 3 tiers: • Declarative UI
1. Data and Logic • Easy installation
• Ajax support
2. Soap/Rest Services • No version pain
• Rich set of widgets
3. Declarative UI • Flexibility
• Easily extensible
• Just 1 language
• Mashup using SOA
• Break down skills silos
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1. Web 2.0
2. Simple
3. Extensible
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Open and Extensible
 Plans for open implementation
 Allow third parties to extend EGL, develop their own version
 Use available frameworks/runtimes
 WebSphere, i5OS, Tomcat, IAS
 J2EE, JSF, TUI, BIRT, etc
 UI Libraries at the EGL Café
 Download third-party libraries
 Write your own and upload them
 Import into the visual editor palette
 Totally based on Web Standards
 REST, SOAP, JSON, OpenAjax, dojo, etc
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End-to-end Application Development
IBM i, WAS,
SOAP/REST Service Calls
DB2, RPG
getTrack(id)
getSession(id)
vote(id, 5)
EGL records
JSON Responses
Simple Services
Scalability
High Degree of Caching
Virtualization Browser
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End-to-end Application Development
REST Service Calls
PHP, SQLite
getPlan(userid)
updatePlan(…)
JSON
REST Responses
Simple Services
LAMP Stack
Easy Deployment
Browser
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Demo
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Questions?
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Thank You
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