User's Guide


What this book includes

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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