Editing EGL (programming language) (section)

== Commercial products ==
EGL programming tools are available as an Eclipse-based<ref>[http://www.eclipse.org Eclipse]</ref> commercial product, the [[IBM Rational Business Developer Extension|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 [[4GL|4th generation languages]]:
* a set of conversion tools available within the [[IBM Rational Business Developer Extension|Rational Business Developer]] product provide automated the conversion from older and stabilized IBM and [[Informix]] [[4GL|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 [[NATURAL|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<ref>[http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/LanguageTools/EGLTools.html Semantic Designs]</ref>