User's Guide
This book helps you to complete and deliver applications. It is
divided into several parts:
- Getting started
- This part provides introductory material on the IBM Smalltalk development
environment. It also explains the concepts that support team
programming.
- Making your own applications
- This part explains the process of creating Smalltalk applications.
Several examples are included.
- Inspecting and debugging code
- This part describes two important tools, the Inspector and the
Debugger.
- Handling software components
- This part discusses moving, deleting, filing in, and filing out
components.
- Handling team software components
- This part gives detailed information on how to handle software components
in a team environment. Topics include version control, releasing, and
defining lineups for multiplatform components.
- Performing team system administration
- This part includes topics such as library operations and crash
recovery.
- Packaging, unloading, and analyzing code
- After your application works, you package it to prepare it for
distribution. This part explains several packaging strategies.
This part also covers the Swapper, a high speed object loader/unloader.
Also covered are tools for monitoring memory and analyzing code
performance.
- Setting up, customizing, and extending the system
- This part gives you information on setting up the product and on
fine-tuning your development environment.
This guide does not cover VisualAge-specific aspects of the development
environment. If you are using VisualAge, you will find that you can use
the VisualAge Organizer to perform many of the operations covered in this
book. It is still worthwhile to read this guide, however, because all
of the concepts described in the guide apply to the VisualAge as well as the
IBM Smalltalk development environment.
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