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Tom Nies
Cincom® VisualWorks® 9.4.1
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The Cincom Smalltalk 9.4 Data Sheet |
Both Cincom® ObjectStudio® and Cincom VisualWorks share the same core libraries and foundation, which means enhancements on the foundation improve both products. This release has significant upgrades for the Cincom Smalltalk Foundation and each product.
VisualWorks is an enterprise-class, multilingual, cross-platform, application development and delivery platform that’s used by world-class companies in areas such as semiconductor manufacturing, shipping, financial risk management, insurance, banking, government, education, and healthcare.
The VisualWorks suite is the premiere Smalltalk environment and has an unrivaled live and interactive development environment that is highly effective and productive.
VisualWorks includes components for any type of work that might contemplate—Client, Server, Client-Server, Distributed, Grid or Web—and allows you to build them with superior development tools.
VisualWorks can work or integrate with most standard technologies such as internet protocols (HTTP, HTTP/2, FTP, POP3, etc.), secure protocols (TLS, HTTPS), most relational databases (RDBs), sockets, COM, Web services (WS*), Web standards (HTML5, JavaScript, Ajax, JSON, WebSockets), MQSeries, and more. This allows VisualWorks to seamlessly plug into an enterprise infrastructure an important feature for IS shops that need to integrate multiple applications from multiple sources.
High-Fidelity Skins (UI Skinning)
- Native rendering combined with customizable widgets
- Native rendering on Windows and MacOS
- Allows custom looks to be created.
Cross-Platform
- Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix
- See the available platforms listed below.
Enhanced Text
A few areas of new capability in text handling include:- Annotations
- Sparklines
- Adornments
- Lists
VisualWorks Is Instantly Portable across a Wide Range of Platforms (32 Bit and 64 Bit) including:
- Windows (10-22H2, 11)
- Windows Server® 2022
- MacOS (12, 13, 14)
- Linux (x86) (RHEL 7.x+)
- AIX 7.3+
- Solaris 11.4
- Easy cross-platform applications
- AppeX ECMAScript 8 (JavaScript) support
- UI skinning on Windows/MacOS
- New text
- Internationalization
- Seaside Web framework
- Web services
VisualWorks provides 64-bit VMs on most of our platforms including Windows 64-bit. The 64-bit solutions have a much larger addressable memory, allowing a much larger object space, very large collections and other optimizations for 64-bit.
VisualWorks includes an extensive locale system based upon CLDR
(Unicode Consortium’s Common Locale Data Repository) locales.
VisualWorks now supports bi-directional content for sophisticated
internationalization solutions.
The Project Manager allows easy location and launching of projects
as well as new project creation.
UI skins allow flexibility in widget display, with native rendering skins for Windows and MacOS, and emulated and customizable skins to create your own custom look. The windows emulated skin allows a familiar look on any platform.
