Heard of Apache? Meet SiouX! SiouX is our new Web server, which has a goal of building an HTTP server with Xtreams while squeezing as much scalability and performance out of it as possible.
Streaming is a common practice in object-oriented programming, and it helps in making application execution more efficient. Streaming is a core part of the classic Smalltalk- standard library and capability.
Product management is pleased to introduce Text2 in the upcoming Cincom VisualWorks 7.10 release! Text2 is a very significant upgrade to the text capabilities for Cincom Smalltalk.
Software internationalization has steadily grown in importance over the years from a relatively obscure specialty (only bothered with by “large multinational corporations” that knew what $NLS$ meant) to a central role in software today, with computers connecting users from all over the world. In the few years since 1990, internationalization features and functions have gone from rare (in software and software development tools) to ubiquitous and expected.
The SiouX-Server is a new framework for developing Web servers. The main motivation was to build an HTTP server with Xtreams with the goal of squeezing as much scalability and performance out of it as we can.
In ObjectStudio 8.5 and VisualWorks 7.10, Cincom has added full Unicode support to their DB2 connects. This means that from those versions, users will be able to use Unicode table and column names, include Unicode strings in their SQL statements, bind Unicode strings to host variables and even input and output Unicode strings to and from stored procedures.
VisualWorks includes extensive documentation, delivered in the form of over 20 PDF guides (approximately 3600 pages) and an integrated Help system comprised of several hundred topics.