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 that they currently
perform on the workstation.
- VisualAge Smalltalk Server can be used to run native Linux, Windows,
OS/2, Sun Solaris, or AIX applications, allowing background Smalltalk
applications to run while other processing occurs in the foreground.
These applications are termed "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, AIX, Sun Solaris, and
MVS and in IMS message processing regions (MPR) on MVS. 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, OS/2, AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, CICS, IMS, or MVS Native environments. You will also learn
how to write applications for use with the following:
- APPC
- CPI-C
- DB2
- EXCI
- MQSeries
- 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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