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OT: Fourj's Genero

Posted in 2004

Topics: Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL

Maurizio — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Hi! In my company we have a Informix DB y Informix 4GL compiler and we are going to change to Fourj's Genero. Have you any information about this product? Is anybody in our situation? Thanks, Maurizio

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David Snyder — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

We're new to Genero at my company. Way more functionality than I-4GL and cheaper licensing too. We're just re-compiling our legacy systems with Genero but any new projects are being written from scratch to take full advantage of Genero's GUI front end. I've converted my db4glgen code generator to generate GUI 4GL for Genero. It's called db4jsgen, check it out at: http://www.snide.com/informix DAS -- David Snyder @ Snide Computer Services - Folcroft, PA Email: dave@snide.com Web: http://www.snide.com Maurizio wrote: > Hi! > In my company we have a Informix DB y Informix 4GL compiler and we are > going to change to Fourj's Genero. Have you any information about this > product? Is anybody in our situation? > > Thanks, Maurizio

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Andrew Hamm — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Maurizio wrote: > Hi! > In my company we have a Informix DB y Informix 4GL compiler and we are > going to change to Fourj's Genero. Have you any information about this > product? Is anybody in our situation? It's not OT - very relevant. There's quite a few users on 'ere but the best place is the 4JS Genero mailing list when you get the product. 4JS Business Development Language (BDL) is very closely compatible with 4GL and you need no code changes to get your programs running. There are a few config settings to fiddle the look and feel without code changes. You can add extra code to make it sexier with BDL Genero is very closely compatible with 4GL and BDL, but it does have a few differences that are aimed at allowing much better look and feel. You will notice a few more differences with Genero, and occasionally they are surprising, so I'd guess that a few code changes with Genero will be beneficial just to get started. The real advantage of Genero is that you will be able to exploit it's new features to make the program look much nicer and also to behave better too. Count on this taking some time, but it's time that's well worth it when you compare it to the cost of completely redeveloping in Java or (bletch) VB. All the 4GL business logic will continue to work as reliably as it has in the past, unlike a rewrite in some other language where inevitably you will introduce new bugs.

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