Server Guide
This book includes information about the VisualAge Smalltalk Server
Workbench. These products are collectively referred to throughout this
book as "VisualAge Smalltalk Server." Information not available in
this book is provided in other VisualAge Smalltalk manuals.
Smalltalk offers the power of a fully object-oriented modeling
environment. With VisualAge Smalltalk Server, the value of enterprise
data can be more easily leveraged into a powerful enterprise model of
objects. VisualAge Smalltalk Server offers many advantages,
including:
- Smalltalk-based business logic and enterprise modeling frameworks can be
reused to perform the same tasks in server environments, including AS/400e
Server environments, that they currently perform on the workstation.
- VisualAge Smalltalk Server can be used to run native Windows NT, OS/2, Sun
Solaris, or AIX applications, allowing background Smalltalk applications to
run while other processing occurs in the foreground. These applications
are termed "OS/390 Native" applications throughout this document.
- VisualAge Smalltalk Server also can be used as a transaction programming
language to run in environments such as CICS on Windows NT, AIX, Sun Solaris,
and OS/390 and in IMS message processing regions (MPR) on OS/390. This
enables you to incorporate your business model implementation directly into
the transaction application code.
- Smalltalk is a high-level, general purpose, object-oriented language used
for quick utility and data manipulation programming. It can be used to
perform specialized tasks across multiple platforms.
This book describes how to develop Smalltalk applications for the Windows
NT, OS/2, AIX, Sun Solaris, CICS, IMS, OS/390 Native, or AS/400e Native
environments. You will also learn how to write applications for use
with the following:
- APPC
- CPI-C
- DB2
- EXCI
- MQSeries
- ObjectExtender
- TCP/IP
- Server Smalltalk (SST)
- Web Connection
The benefit of using VisualAge Smalltalk Server is that you can write
server applications on a workstation using a graphical user interface (GUI)
and rapid development tools.
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