Ajax, JavaScript, REST, and SOAP from the developer, which enables them to focus on the business requirement and not on the underlying technologies. Commercial Products EGL programming tools are available as an Eclipse-based commercial product, the Rational Business Developer and also in the EGL edition of Rational Developer for System z. EGL is a target language for modernization of legacy applications because of the language semantics affinity with procedural languages and legacy 4th generation languages: a set of conversion tools available within the Rational Business Developer product provide automated the conversion from older and stabilized IBM and Informix 4th generation languages a set of IBM service offerings and complementary products (Rational Migration Extension for Natural, Rational Migration Extension for System i, Rational Migration Extension for CA-products) provide the ability to convert from Software AG Natural, IBM RPG, CA Cool:Gen and CA Ideal/Datacom to EGL Tools for searching large EGL code bases, comparing individual EGL files for changes, and detecting duplicated code are available from Semantic Designs References Further reading Enterprise Web 2.0 with EGL, . Developing Web 2.0 Applications with EGL for IBM i, . External links EGL Cafe Community Site IBM Rational Business Developer product page IBM Rational Business Developer Information Centers Eclipse EGL Development Tools (EDT) Project - an open implementation at Eclipse Fourth-generation programming languages IBM software Scripting languages