VA Smalltalk Update. John O Keefe Principal Smalltalk Architect Instantiations, Inc. Copyright 2011, Instantiations, Inc.

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1 VA Smalltalk Update John O Keefe Principal Smalltalk Architect Instantiations, Inc.

2 But first, the rebirth of Instantiations Instantiations roots are in Smalltalk development tools We licensed Smalltalk technology from IBM and grew The Smalltalk tools were very good, so we redid them for Java and grew and redid them again for Eclipse and grew more Google liked the Java tools, so they bought that part of Instantiations and Instantiations took the money and went back to its roots Instantiations is now positioned to successfully respond to customer requests for a 21st Century VA Smalltalk VA Smalltalk...Onward and Upward!

3 Recent Events Growing Engineering staff Added Donald MacQueen, Principal Smalltalk Engineer Looking for more University out-reach Hasso Plattner Institute Bachelor Project Interested in more User out-reach Conference participation VA Smalltalk Forum -> VA Smalltalk Google Group Will be aggregated on Existing forum content still available (static)

4 Previous Releases V8.0 (May 2009) Seaside, Tabbed Browsers, Documentation delivery system V8.0.1 (November 2009) Seaside update, cdecl calling convention V8.0.2 (May 2010) Seaside update, GLORP

5 VA Smalltalk V8.0.3 February 2011 Web interface Seaside support updated to V3.0.2 Improved WSDL schema import diagnostic

6 VA Smalltalk V8.0.3 February 2011 Web interface Seaside support updated to V3.0.2 Improved WSDL schema import diagnostic Graphical User Interface CwMultiLineTextPrompter

7 CwTextPrompter Scrollable, not sizeable

8 CwMultiLineTextPrompter Sizeable, scrollable

9 VA Smalltalk V8.0.3 February 2011 Web interface Seaside support updated to V3.0.2 Improved WSDL schema import diagnostic Graphical User Interface CwMultiLineTextPrompter Development Tools NLS Application Enabler Tool NLS Catalog (.CAT) Editor Browser performance improvements

10 NLS Application Enabler Tool

11 NLS Application Enabler Tool

12 NLS Application Enabler Tool

13 NLS Catalog (.CAT) Editor

14 NLS Catalog (.CAT) Editor

15 NLS Catalog (.CAT) Editor

16 VA Smalltalk V8.0.3 February 2011 Platform Interface TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime PlatformFunction on Windows Windows.EXE and.dll files have function-specific descriptions Improved error diagnostics for memory allocation errors written to log file VM Interfaces New APIs for string conversion EsIsString EsStringToCString EsCStringToString

17 VA Smalltalk V8.0.3 February 2011 Platforms Ubuntu Fedora Core 14 Documentation New online documentation Support VA Assist Widget/Kit Controls GF/ST 40+ bug fixes

18 Looking to the Future

19 Future Releases Release schedule is about twice a year Next release is planned for August 2011 Current information available in Product Roadmap Content based on requirements from: Direct customer interactions Forums Support cases Internals

20 Priority Technologies Internationalization Web interface Middleware GUI Look and Feel Development Tools Security Performance and Scalability Platforms External Interfaces Other

21 Next Release Planned Content Major Items Internationalization Uniform UTF-8 input/output Web interface Seaside 3.x Continuation support GUI Look and Feel Additional Windows Common Controls Specific controls TBD (Rebar, Calendar, Task Dialog, etc.) Supported at CW, ABT and WB level

22 Next Release Planned Content Major Items Development Tools Improved Changes Browser & Merge Tool Code Assist (auto-complete) New Settings framework Other Infrastructure Deprecation exception support Logging framework Installation Single installer for Client and Manager Seamless with Windows UAC (User Account Control)

23 Next Release Planned Content Other Items Web interface HTTP chunked transfer encoding GUI Look and Feel TIFF 4 Middleware Improved DB2 Stored Procedures GLORP improvements Security Basic security framework (consolidate existing OpenSSL wrappers) External Interfaces JNIPort

24 Next Release Planned Content Removed Items Platforms Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2000 (all versions) Microsoft support ended July, 2010 Support in V8.0.3 and earlier continues on best-can-do basis

25 Internationalization Future Releases Candidate Items Full Unicode/UTF-8 (including VM) Web interface Seaside 3.x SST Servlet multipart forms Web services tooling improvements Web services debugging tools/doc Validating XML parser

26 Future Releases Candidate Items GUI Look and Feel GTK+ 2.x on Linux Additional Windows Common Controls Additional icon/image support Backport widgets from add-ons Development Tools Monticello importer New Settings dialog Consolidate all settings using new Settings framework Middleware GLORP infrastructure improvements GLORP Programmer s Reference Active Records built on GLORP TCP/IP V6

27 Security Future Releases Candidate Items Full security framework -- OpenSSL 1.0 wrappers Performance and Scalability Incremental garbage collection 64-bit Smalltalk Class library performance hotspots Integrate KES/Stats tool Platform Windows Services control moved to Smalltalk External Interfaces.NET/C#

28 Future Releases Candidate Items Other Installation Install/Repair/Uninstall Class Libraries Collection hashing policies Collection sorting policies

29 How Do You Get VA Smalltalk? Download evaluation copy Buy development licenses

30 How Do You Get VA Smalltalk? Download evaluation copy Buy development licenses Download development build

31 Development Builds Started as an experiment in Early delivery Continuous integration Availability Announced on VA Smalltalk Forum and comp.lang.smalltalk Download from VA Smalltalk website Irregular schedule Documentation updated to match build Windows and Linux only Fix-list for build on VA Smalltalk forum

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