Development process
Your work with EGL includes the following steps:
- Setup
- You set up a work environment; for example, you set preferences and create projects.
- Create and open EGL files
- You begin to create the source code.
- Declaration
- You create and specify the details of your code.
- Validation
- At various times (such as when you save a file), EGL reviews your declarations and indicates whether they are syntactically correct and (to some extent) whether they are internally consistent.
- Debugging
- You can interact with a built-in debugger to ensure that your code fulfills your requirements.
- Generation
- EGL validates your declarations and creates output, including source code.
You choose between two techniques:
- Generating into a project (as is recommended); or
- Generating into a directory.
- Preparation
- EGL prepares the source code to produce executable objects. In some cases this step places the source code on a deployment platform outside of the development platform, prepares the source code on the deployment platform, and sends a results file from the deployment platform to the development platform.
- Deployment
- EGL produces output that makes deployment of the executable objects easier.
Related concepts
EGL debugger
Generation of Java code into a project
Introduction to EGL
Related tasks
Processing Java code that is generated into a directory
Setting up the J2EE run-time environment for EGL-generated code
Related reference
EGL editor
EGL source format