Expanded Notices
Trademarks
Expanded About this book
Who this book is for
Conventions used in this book
Tell us what you think

Migrating from Version 5.5 or earlier
Expanded Moving your applications to the new library
Expanded Migrating Version 6.0 product code to your existing library
Preliminary steps
Running the tool
Loading into an image
Expanded Other concerns for users migrating from earlier versions
Some base features no longer available
Some separately priced features no longer available
Elimination of required map links in configuration maps
Low-level configuration map reorganization
Expanded Time class shape changed
Default XML serialization methods added for Date and Time
Changed behavior of millisecondClockValue on OS/390
Behavior change in handling negative system time
Behavior change in creating FileStreams
Packager 'do not reduce' rule behavior changed
EMSRV startup parameter changes
SST HTTP Servlet API
POSIX Migration
Behavior changes for Application Builder parts

Migrating from Version 5.0
Expanded Migrating from Version 5.0
Hiding Java packages and projects in browsers
Providing a customized splash screen
Migrating control files to Version 6.0
Importing feature code
Migrating method mappings to JDK 1.2
Changes in Server Workbench
Expanded Other concerns for users migrating from earlier versions
Current code page support is inconsistent on supported platforms
AbtConnectionSpec >> #targetCodePage: now expects a String as an argument

Migrating from Version 4.5
Expanded Migrating from Version 4.5
Formatted Text Field part
Enhanced shared library support on AIX
Server applications using .mpr files

Migrating from Version 4.0, 4.01, or 4.02
Expanded Packager changes
Symbol and class reference adjustment API
Priority for packaging rules
Expanded Problem and rule policies
Problem policies
Rule policies
Expanded Migrating distributed applications
Expanded Distributed Smalltalk infrastructure
Object space
Communications
Marshaling
Logical process
Activation
Security
Expanded Distributed development tools
Remote Workspace
Remote Transcript
Remote file dialog
Distributed Inspector
Distributed Debugger
Distributed garbage collection
Distributed load
Name server
Event profiling (method calls)
VisualAge parts
Distribution menu
Expanded Distributed runtime APIs
Basic remote object API
Object copying API
Parallel processing API
Name server
Event callbacks (connect/disconnect)
Distributed exceptions
Object space management
Porting guidelines
Distributed runtime APIs
Expanded Other concerns for users migrating from Versions 4.0, 4.01, or 4.02
Using VisualAge features in server applications
Runtime code for nonvisual parts in server applications
Headless runtime applications
Signalling events with arguments
Ending server applications
MVS applications that reference subsystem type 'TM'
Smalltalk error message in a CICS workstation environment
Search path for multiple images of Smalltalk using CICS classes
Snapshot files

Migrating from Version 3.0 or earlier
Expanded Moving applications to the new library
Expanded Moving applications from VisualAge Standard
Generating runtime code
Expanded Using the migration tool
Running the tool
Expanded Migrating database applications
Loading database migration support
Expanded Database Manager
Migrating your application
Database Access Set Runtime
Dynamic to Static
Expanded Swapper tool
General migration
API maintained for compatibility
Expanded Dumping, loading, and the Common File System subsystem
Example: Unloading using CfsFileDescriptor
Example: Loading using CfsFileDescriptor
Expanded Other concerns for users migrating from Version 3.0 or earlier
Enabling applications from Version 1.0 or 2.0 for packaging
Promoted features of a Container Details View
Updating connections
References to pool dictionary CwConstants, AbtCwConstants, or EwConstants
AbtNormalGraphic constant used in nonvisual parts
Web Connection
Extensions of Decimal class
Expanded Applications that use OSObject subclasses
Migrating OSObject subclasses
Migrating code that instantiates OSObject directly
View wrappers that use attribute-to-attribute connections
Migrating the default font for Report Writer reports
Packager warning 'No implementors of fixupNlsPool'

Appendixes
Index