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Copyright © 2013 Instantiations, Inc.

VA Smalltalk Update

John O’Keefe

Chief Technical Officer

Instantiations, Inc.


Agenda

• Company Update

• Current Release Content

• Next Release Content

• Futures

• Q&A

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Company Update


Company Events

• In 2010 new Instantiations company incorporated to focus exclusively on Smalltalk

• Almost 3 years as pure Smalltalk company

• # of users and revenues continue to grow year-to-year

• Engineering staff has grown

• Increased permanent staff

• Using contractors for additional capacity

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Non-Development Activity

• University Outreach

• University of Chile• Roassal Visualization Framework

• User Outreach

• Conference participation• ESUG, Smalltalk Solutions, Smalltalks

• VA Smalltalk Google Group• Aggregated on [Smalltalk] http://forum.world.st

• Old forum content (prior to May, 2011) still available (readonly)

• “Videos and Podcasts” pages on website• http://www.instantiations.com/resources/st4u_videos.html

• http://www.instantiations.com/resources/videos.html


Current Release

V8.5.2 available September 2012

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Development Tools – V8.5.2

• Monticello Importer• Replacement for VAPackageExporter• Imports from .mcz files• Maps Monticello structure

• Package -> Application• Name taken from package name in .mcz• Holds extension methods

• Categories -> SubApplication(s)• Name(s) based on categories• #loaded/#removing class methods generated• Holds defined classes

• Pool classes -> Pool Dictionaries• Class renamed and _PRAGMA_ method created

• Includes zip/unzip support (beta)


Development Tools – V8.5.2continued

• VA Assist

• Code Completion added to Inspectors

• Browser performance improved when accessing repository with high network latency

• Packager• Packaging instructions for Seaside ICs

• Core

• Javascript/jQuery/Scriptaculous

• Runtime Tools

• Tools• Tools -> Query -> Globals in Unmanaged Namespace to quickly identify unmanaged globals

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Infrastructure – V8.5.2

• TimeZone support

• Supported by DateAndTime class• Used in conversion between time zones

• Used in arithmetic operations that span DST transitions

• TimeZone data is Olson timezone database• Included in Linux, AIX and Solaris

• We ship for Windows

• No changes necessary to existing code• Methods that specify explicit offset are deprecated

• Platform Interface• Added System>>getProcessId to retrieve the processId of the Smalltalk process


Graphics and Windowing – V8.5.2Rebar Control

• Supported in Composition Editor

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Database – V8.5.2

• GLORP• Upgrade to 0.4.190


Miscellaneous – V8.5.2

• Web services• Added SstWSContainer

class>>resetWebServicesDevelopmentEnvironment to cleanup

when debugging

• Platforms

• Windows 8

• Ubuntu 12

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Documentation - V8.5.2

• On-line documentation and FAQs enabled for Google search

• New “st4u: Smalltalk for You” page on website• Short (1 – 3 minutes) videos showing specific VA Smalltalk features

• http://www.instantiations.com/resources/st4u_videos.html


Support

• 55+ bug fixes & minor enhancements in V8.5.2

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Next Release

V8.6 available 3Q/2013


V8.6 Planned Content

• GUI Look and Feel

• A Scintillating Text Editor

• Windows Common Controls improvements

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A Scintillating Text Editor

• Complete redesign of our default text editor component

• Built on the modern, popular and well supported Scintilla editing component

• Compatibility layer provides seamless integration allowing our new editor component to be interchanged with our existing editor component

• API-compatible with CwText

• Exposed the full Scintilla API so users can use the new text editor in their own applications

• Used by Browsers, Inspectors, Workspace, etc.

• Multiple undo/redo support

• Support for hardware-accelerated rendering with Microsoft’s DirectWrite technology


A Scintillating Text Editorcontinued

• Come to the “Scintillating! A Modernized Text Editor for VA Smalltalk” session @ 2:30 this afternoon for details

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Windows Common ControlsDateTimePicker

• New attributes

• today shown

• weeks numbered

• multiple selection (a range of dates up to a maximum size as set by the user)

• first day of the week settable

• some days show as bold (May 27 in this case)


V8.6 Planned Contentcontinued

• Development Tools

• Scintillating Browsers, Inspectors and Workspaces

• Breakpoint improvements

• Manager Library improvements

• ImageShortName preference setting

• Monticello Importer improvements

• XD Features for GLORP and Seaside

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Scintillating Browsers, Inspectors and Workspaces

• Optional, enabled by default

• Customized color syntax highlighter• Additional styling options and features

• Now available in our workspaces and inspectors, too!

• Autocompletion support using VA Assist’s code completion engine with new popup widget

• Code Assisting features such as• []() match highlighting

• Calltips

• New text manipulation keyboard shortcuts

• and much more …

• New stylizable and configurable margins for displaying line numbers, breakpoints and code fold indicators


Scintilla Debugger Example

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Scintillating Browsers, Inspectors and Workspaces

continued

• Come to the “Scintillating! A Modernized Text Editor for VA Smalltalk” session @ 2:30 this afternoon for details


Breakpoint Improvement

• One-shot breakpoint

• Removes itself after firing once

• Breakpoint icon is visually distinguishable

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Manager Library

• EMSRV for Windows

• Warning when running on multiprocessor hardware removed

• EMSRV for UNIX

• Linux filesystem limitations removed• Additional filesystems supported

• 16GB manager library supported


Monticello Importer Improvements

• Version name of imported code defaults to Monticello version (for example, NickAger.257)

• Monticello version info copied to Application Notes to aid cross-referencing

Name: Seaside-Tests-Core-NickAger.257Author: NickAgerTime: 21 March 2012, 5:49:03 am

tidied WATestingMetadataFileLibrary

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ImageShortName Preference

• Preference used to identify windows associated with development image

• Example:[EtBaseTools]

ImageShortName=SS


XD Features

• Cross-development (XD) environment is used

• To build headless runtimes

• To build runtimes for deployment on different platform different (ex: Windows -> Linux)

• Loading code into a cross-development (XD) image is based on XD feature classes and maps

• Added XD feature for GLORP

• Added XD feature for Seaside

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• Other Tools (on the cusp)

• Announcements

• Roassal Agile Visualization Framework


Announcements

• A framework for event notification

• Based on Observer pattern

• Replaces traditional event symbols (#changed) with event objects (ChangedEvent)

• Event objects can carry context-oriented information

• Clients can subscribe, unsubscribe, and handle event• Event Handling uses #on:do: like exception handling

• Supplied because Roassal uses it, but you can use it too

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Roassal Visualization Framework

• Roassal is an open-source project of ObjectProfile

• Roassal graphically renders objects using short expressive Smalltalk expressions

• A large set of interaction are offered for a better user experience

• Painting

• Brushing

• Interconnecting

• Zooming

• Dragging and dropping

• Using Roassal will enhance your understanding of any arbitrary object model


Roassal Visualization Frameworkcontinued

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Roassal Visualization Frameworkcontinued

• Come to the “The Roassal Agile Visualization Engine” session @ 3:45 tomorrow for more details



• Web Interface

• Grease 1.0.7 / Seaside 3.0.8

• SST Servlet multipart forms

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Seaside and Grease

• New port levels available

• Grease 1.0.7

• Seaside 3.0.8 (not frozen)

• Mostly small bug fixes

• Configuration maps identify the Metacello package version used for the port; currently:

• ConfigurationOfGrease-topa.192

• ConfigurationOfSeaside30-DiegoLont.392


HTTP Servlet Multipart Message

• Inbound only

• Multipart/form and Multipart/mixed

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HTTP Servlet Multipart Messagecontinued

POST

/tests/functional/WAUploadFunctionalTest?_s=pU08M3vR6qTed

T0h&_k=VsZWNm5-UNwo78kY HTTP/1.1Host: localhost:8788User-

Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0)

Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0Accept:

text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*

;q=0.8Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5Accept-Encoding:

gzip, deflateReferer:

http://localhost:8788/tests/functional/WAUploadFunctional

Test_s=pU08M3vR6qTedT0h&_k=e1rAWMZHeKaprINZConnection:

keep-aliveContentContent--Type: multipart/formType: multipart/form--datadata; boundary=---

------------------------27682861628308Content-Length:

7204-----------------------------27682861628308Content-

Disposition: form-data; name="4";

filename="abtIS.ini"Content-Type: application/octet-

stream; Windows .INI for VA Smalltalk;;

=============================================; =====

Begin development time only stanzas

=====; ================================================

[Xml]; This stanza is only needed at runtime if your

runtime app used XML.DefaultResourceQualifier=C:\Program

Files\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.6\xml

-----------------------------27682861628308--

• Incoming HTTP message from Seaside WAUploadFunctionalTest


HTTP Servlet Multipart Messagecontinued

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• Database

• GLORP currency


GLORP

• GLORP updated to the latest version available in the Cincom Public Repository (7.9.1-4)

• Host Variable support

• Improved error handling

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• Installation

• InstallShield on Windows

• .rpm on UNIX

• Environments Management Tool


Windows Installer

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Windows Installercontinued

• Built with industry-standard InstallShield

• 2 Downloadable Install Packages

• Code

• Installs Client and Manager by default (for standalone)

• Optional installation of only Client or Manager (for shared manager library)

• Emsrv and Emadmin tools are always installed

• Documentation• Separate package allows between-release updates



• All files except mgr86.dat installed in• %ProgramFiles% (64-bit)

• %ProgramFiles(x86)% (32-bit)

• UAC compliant directory locations for writable files• Manager installed in %AllUsersProfile%

• C:\Documents And Settings\AllUsers on XP

• C:\Program Data on Win 7

• Environments utility used to create and manage writable files

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• Environments shortcut installed on the Start Menu and Desktop

• Launch Environments to create and start a new development image


Windows Uninstaller

• Repair/Uninstall available from Windows Control Panel

• Manager Library is not removed unless requested

• No files created by Environments are removed

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Windows Uninstallercontinued

• Repair Option

• Repair corrupted installation

• Optionally obtain a new copy of the Manager Library


UNIX InstallerIn Development

• UNIX install package will be in .RPM format

• Native platform installer used:

• AIX rpm from AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

• Linux rpm

• Solaris *TBD*

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Environments Management Tool

• Environments Tool creates and manages development environments

• Available on all platforms

• Create working directories containing image and .INI

• Manage working directories• Start an image

• Modify settings such as (Envy) server name and manager name and location

• Review content of the working directory

• Get a fresh copy of an image

• Create a shortcut on the desktop to start the image (Windows)

• Delete an image


Environments Tool Examples

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• Platforms

• Ubuntu 13.04


Looking to the Future

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Future Releases

• Release schedule is about twice a year

• Generally Spring and Fall

• Current content information in Product Roadmap• http://www.instantiations.com/products/roadmap.html

• Content based on requirements from:

• Direct customer interactions

• Forums

• Support cases

• Internals


Future ReleasesCandidate Items

• Internationalization

• Full Unicode/UTF-8 (including VM)

• Web interface

• Seaside 3.x

• Continuation support

• Web services tooling improvements

• Web services debugging tools/doc

• Validating XML parser

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• GUI Look-and-Feel

• GTK+ 3.x on Linux

• Windows Common Controls additions

• Icon/image support enhancements• Support for alpha-channel (blending)

• Support for .PNG file (R/W)

• Back-port widgets from add-ons (ex: UML Designer)

• Development Tools

• Redesigned Change Browser & Merge Tool



• Infrastructure• Settings Dialogs to complement Settings Framework

• Consolidate more settings using Settings Framework

• Consolidate product logging using Logging Framework

• Full .zip, .gz, and inflate/deflate support

• Middleware• DB2 Stored Procedures improvements

• GLORP Programmer’s Reference

• Active Records built on GLORP

• ‘Simple’ DB support (MySQL or SQLite)

• MQ currency

• TCP/IP V6

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• Security

• ‘Basic’ security framework (consolidate existing OpenSSL wrappers)

• ‘Full’ security framework -- OpenSSL 1.0 wrappers

• Performance and Scalability

• Incremental garbage collection

• 64-bit Smalltalk

• Class library performance hotspots

• Integrate KES/Stats goodie for object monitoring

• Platform

• Windows Services control moved from C to Smalltalk



• External Interfaces• JNIport (currently available on VAStGoodies.com)

• .NET/C#

• Other

• Class Libraries• Collection hashing policies

• Sorted collection sorting policies

• Other• We’re always looking for suggestions

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How Do You Get VA Smalltalk?

• Download evaluation copy• http://www.instantiations.com/products/vasmalltalk/download.html

• Buy development licenses• http://www.instantiations.com/products/purchase.html

• Download development build

• Announced in VA Smalltalk Google Group

• Be a committer on an Open Source project• http://www.instantiations.com/company/open-source.html

• Work for an educational institution• http://www.instantiations.com/products/academic-license-program.html


Contact us

• General information

• [email protected]

• Sales


• Support


• Me


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Questions?