cincom smalltalk roadmap esug 2013, by arden thomas

7/29/2019 Cincom Smalltalk Roadmap ESUG 2013, by Arden Thomas

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Talks

Arden Thomas: Cincom Smalltalk RoadmapThursday 9 AM

Dirk Verleysen :UI Unlimited Things you can do with the new CincomSmalltalk UI

Tuesday 2 PM Andreas Hiltner:

Cincom Smalltalk new Native GUI implementation Preview ATechnicalOverview

Wednesday 2 PM

Niall Ross: How and Where in GLORP Wednesday 10:45 AM Tom Robinson:

Pursuing Performance in Store: Algorithms, Queries,Schemas


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Contents

o Happy 30th

o Inventing the Futureo Pearls

o Productso ObjectStudioo VisualWorks

o What is;o Oldo Newo .


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Smalltalk for the Long Haul.

o You have chosen Smalltalk as astrategic solution

o Cincom has the same commitment

o At Cincom we are not resting on theSmalltalk of the past, but are forgingSmalltalk into the future


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Cincoms Commitment

Cincom actively supports Smalltalk and iskeeping Smalltalk viable by:o Sponsoring events

o Actively advancing two Smalltalk productso Working with customers to meet their

requirementso Making personal use version available

giving new developers easy access tolearning Smalltalko Employing, directly and indirectly, a large

number of Smalltalkers.


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CST Product ManagementCommitment

o Changes / experiments to releasecycles

o True maintenance releases

o Customer requirements

o More focused releases


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Happy 30th

toCincom payshomage to all thoseinvolved with thecreation of

Smalltalk Thankyou!


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Man who

Invented theFuture

- Father of Science


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The Team Who ACTUALLY

Invented the Future


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Smalltalks Influence


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o What is the largest company in theWORLD?


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< DynabookMini

Dynabook >


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30th Anniversary ofSmalltalk


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30th Anniversary as we Renewour Dee A reciation of

o Our vows of appreciation?

o If this were the 30th Weddinganniversary it would be the Pearlanniversary


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Something Old, SomethingNew


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For This Momentous Occasion,Cincom is Outfittin Smalltalko Something old

o Something new

o

Something borrowedo Something blue

Classic


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The Products

Cincom Smalltalk Foundation

ObjectStudio VisualWorks


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Foundation




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Foundation


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Foundation - Past

Sharpen the Saw

o Engineering process improvementsoMore agile development

oAutomated tests


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Foundation - Past

o Unicode VMs

o 64 bit VMs revamped

o

Windows 64 bit VMo GC improvements

o Atomic Loading

o Delay alternatives


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Foundation - Past

o Store revamped foundationoGlorp underpinnings

oNew Store Browsers

oNew Store Garbage collection

o New Merge engine

o New Comparison tool


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Foundation - Past

o Seaside Frameworko Latest packaged and integrated for easy

use


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Foundation - Past

o External encryption option


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Foundation - Present

o Time enhancements

o Timestamp enhancements

o

Xtreams Crypto fallback


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Foundation - Present: VM

o VM improvementsoGC performance improvements

Reduced overhead

Faster scavenge of fixed & large objects Smaller, faster compactor


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Foundation - Present: VM

o Store improvementsoOne step merge and publish (with undo)

o Improved Store repository creation

o Performance improvements Version browsers

Load time

Store GC


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Foundation - Present

Heard of Apache? Meet SiouX!

SiouX is our new Web Server


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Foundation - Present:SiouX

SiouX

build an HTTP server with Xtreams withthe goal of squeezing as much scalabilityand performance out of it as we can


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SiouX (preview)o General purpose Web Server

o http / https

o Net / Xtreamso Rehosted

o Seasideo WebServices

o Move your Web apps to SiouX


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Foundation - Present:

SiouXThe new framework provides a secure, efcient andextensible server that provides HTTP services that are insync with the current HTTP standards.o streaming responseso

focus on efcient and scalable implementationo server can be configured to listen on multiple ports

(multiple listeners)o chunked responseso gzippingo SSL and TLS supporto flexible and easy to maintain configurationo running dierent Web applications from the same


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SiouX modern web server

What about modern Web apps?


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Foundation - Present:AppeX

AppeX - Web Application Framework(Preview)


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AppeX - Web Application Framework Previewo Modern Web Frameworko Current tech: HTML5, JavaScript, Ajax, JSON, XHRo Open use any JavaScript library you likeo Automatic Session managemento Manage Smalltalk & JavaScript code in CST

o Browser support for JavaScript Search senders/implementers

Parses JavaScript literals

o Very lightweight and flexibleo Uses SiouX

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AppeX & SiouX the one two punch!

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Foundation - Present:MatriX

MatriX

o Polycephaly2 now named MatriX


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Foundation - Future

o Store improvementso Reduce memory allocation

o Improve method source handling

o Improve external file handling

o Improve performance and scalability(algorithms)


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Foundation - Future

o Previews improved and released

o More we cant tell you about


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ObjectStudio




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ObjectStudio


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The Products -

The Business Analysts ThinkingTool

Allows Analysts & Developers to work together Windows-centric, Windows 7 certified Powerful Object Modeling and Mapping Business architects use powerful bi-directional modeling

tool to blueprint their systems design Code and Framework Generation, white box

Round-Trip Engineering Advanced OR mapping tools integrate databases into

applications


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ObjectStudio - Past

o Move to Foundation

o New professionally designed logos /icons

o Modeling tool work

o Mapping tool work / Moved to Glorp

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Compiler upgradeso Vista certification

o Windows7 logo


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ObjectStudio - Present

o Latest Foundationo extensive improvements

o Better font integrationoCan use all available fonts

o Includes all forms of bold, italics,underline, etc

o Move from C to Smalltalko Fixes and Refinements


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o Tools refinementso Modeling tool

Improved class import

Improved context sensitive help

o Mapping tool Better table creation

o Databaseo

New ODBC apio Nanosecond/Microsecond support w/ Db

connects


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o ProgressBar

o Marquee Dialog

Obj tSt di P t


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ObjectStudio - Present:Previews!

o New GUI Preview

o New COM preview


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ObjectStudio - Future

o New GUI

o New COMoActiveX integration

o All Foundation benefits!


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VisualWorks




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VisualWorks - Past

VisualWorks Launcher

COM Revamp, COM 64

ActiveX integration


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VisualWorks - Present

o VM improvementso Statically linked VM for deployment on

Windows

o Faster arithmetic on big-endian platformsoGC performance improvements

oCompiler upgrades

o Sparc v8 instruction set


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VisualWorks Present: GUI

We make the big changes whenwarranted .


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o New Text Editor Work!

o Text2 Widgets


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o New Text2 Widgetso Input Editor

oDocument Editor

oDocument View

What can Text2 do that Text1 cannot? ..

VisualWorks Present:


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VisualWorks Present:Text2

o Adornments - strike through, jagged underlines, doubleunderlines, more

o Actions - clicking on a piece of text could activate a hyperlinko Annotations - pop up extra information as the mouse moves

over a section of texto

Variable font sizes in the same documento Vertical alignment within lineso Bidirectional content with support for embedded direction

markso Unicode font measuring and rendering

o

Images in documentso Lists both bulleted and numbered, with international

numbering schemeso Extensible design to add new features


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o Skins Look & Feel previewo Keyboard handling overhaul (started)o New HotKey/Command System

consolidationo Font and color specification consolidationo OS X improvements

o Improved keyboard bindingso Improved menuso Improved transient windows


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VisualWorks - Future

o Previews becoming fully integrated

o Text2 integrationo coming to browsers

o More, Moreo Buckle your seatbelts!


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Contact info

Star Team(Smalltalk Strategic Task Action Resources)

Arden Thomas ([email protected])Smalltalk Product Manager

Suzanne Fortman ([email protected])Smalltalk Director

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com
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