Where should Gen go ?
Looking at the users of Gen worldwide, most of them seem to be going the SOA route.
Whilst this is not inherently a problem, and whilst Gen can participate fully in the SOA world, just as easily as it could in the batch world, the mainframe world and the client/server world, what part SHOULD Gen be playing in this world?
Should Gen be a service consumer as well as a service provider ?
I believe that Gen should be marketed primarily as a back-end development tool – a service provider - with front ends done by other tools.
Gen’s strengths are in high-volume, reliable, sturdy and stable service provision – let’s push that !
Let’s face it, the DreamWeavers of this world have got the user interface on the web sewn up. What we don’t need is YAWIT – Yet Another Web Interface Tool.
What we need is a tool that can provide the services at the back end. In these days of corporate databases and large,complex datasets, we need a tool that “just works”. Gen IS that tool. Yes – it can “do Web” but do we want it to “do the whole shebang ??”
I firmly believe that the place that Gen should be is at the back end – providing the services for the fluffy tools to hook into to provide the user experiences. In fact, if Gen were a pure service-creation tool, then those services could be used by a 3270 interface, a Web interface and a client/service interface – now there’s an idea !
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20 Years of Gen!
The CA-Gen toolset celebrates 20 years of coding this year and is still as powerful as ever, if not more so. Its strengths lie in the fact that someone recently told me that they had written an action diagram 20 years ago in IEF (when Gen was just batch) and they recently deployed that action diagram in a J2EE environment, having not changed it at all in 20 years, AND having deployed it in a 3270 environment, a client/server environment and a midrange environment – all without a single line of code change !
How better to leverage the investment in software development that that !!!
This blog will concentrate on where CA-Gen is today and where CA-Gen is tomorrow – I welcome people to comment on what I say – to actively disagree, to actively agree or whatever you feel you need to say !!!
Whatever people’s feelings, there can be but one truth – Gen is here to stay and will empower businesses to create software systems quickly, cheaply, efficiently and robustly for many years to come.
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