User's Guide


About this product

VisualAge enables you to quickly make client/server applications.

VisualAge makes you more productive by providing interactive visual programming tools and a set of parts that represent the client/server spectrum. You create applications by assembling and connecting parts. In many cases, you do not even have to write code.

If you do need to write code, VisualAge provides a state-of-the-art, integrated development environment. The programming language you use is Smalltalk, an industry-standard, highly productive, pure object-oriented language.

IBM Smalltalk provides a purely object-oriented, state-of-the-art application development environment for developing Smalltalk applications within VisualAge. With IBM Smalltalk, you can rapidly develop graphical client-server applications for the IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris operating systems. IBM Smalltalk consists of the following components:

This guide concentrates on the set of development tools, including the numerous browsers offered.

VisualAge users will find full access to all of the Smalltalk development tools described in this guide. Thus, you can enhance and extend VisualAge applications using the Smalltalk development environment.


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