Editing EGL (programming language) (section)

=== Service ===
An EGL Service part contains public functions meant to be accessed from other applications or systems. In this example, a service with two functions is defined.

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package com.mycompany.services;

service EmployeeService

    function getEmployees() returns(Employee[])
        records Employee[0]; // define an empty array of records
        get records; // retrieve records from the database
        return (records); // return the records       
    end
    
    function addEmployee(emp Employee in) returns (boolean)
    	try
    		add remp;
    		return (true);
    	onException (ex AnyException)
    		return (false);
    	end
    end

end
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* In EGL, code is organized in packages (like [[Java (programming language)]])
* The first function, ''getEmployees'', returns an array of records populated from the records in a database.
* The second function, ''addEmployee'' adds a new record to the database and returns a true or false depending on whether the record was added successfully.