While reading Spectrum, November Issue

What is EGL?

EGL from IBM, new product, installed as Eclipse plug-in (although they recommend to download id as a bundle), is not all new stuff. There were all ready various solution, to replace the nitty gritty from the developers.
My personal opinion, is that those tools are usually good for one kind of problems, or two. But, when it comes to customizing the solution, this is where the tools usually start smelling.

They say: "The goal is to shield developers from complexities typically associated with Web 2.0 application development". We'll see how will the manage to do it...

Anyway, EGL is a language, new language, they say it simple, and compiles to Java, JavaScript, COBOL.
The language itself hides many complexities from developer. For example, to access Google Map API, just do: map GoogleMap { width = "500px", height = "300px" };

Anyway, I haven't installed it yet, but will, and when I do try it I will demo an application and hopefully show something here.

Reference: http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/community/egl