Cincom Launches Smalltalk ObjectStudio 8

Cincom Systems has released Smalltalk ObjectStudio 8. ObjectStudio 8 is the integration of Cincom Smalltalk ObjectStudio and Cincom Smalltalk VisualWorks (VW), which means that ObjectStudio is now hosted on the VisualWorks virtual machine and libraries.

This new product has three major enhancements. ObjectStudio 8 developers will have direct access to all the VW libraries that have been built up over the last few years - such as web services, security, and web toolkit. VisualWorks developers will have access to a native UI toolset on the Windows platform. ObjectStudio and VW developers will have a unified set of tools to work from (browser, debugger), enabling cross-product learning to happen much faster.

With these advancements, ObjectStudio continues to provide native widget support and ObjectStudio syntax enhancements. ObjectStudio 8 supports VisualWorks emulated widgets simultaneously with native widgets, and both can be used in the same application.

“Both Smalltalk systems consisted of tons of customer applications and components, most of which were only available in one system, not the other. The idea was then born to bring these two systems together in such a way that both, each VisualWorks application and component and each ObjectStudio application and component, works unchanged in the joint system, now called ObjectStudio8,” said Georg Heeg, Premier Cincom Smalltalk partner.