Largest Provider of Commercial Smalltalk
Cincom is one of the largest commercial providers of Smalltalk, with twice as many partners and customers than other commercial providers.
Tom Nies
Cincom Smalltalk Suite of Products
Cincom is a leading provider of commercial Smalltalk. Cincom Smalltalk adds value and simplicity to application development software, web application development tools and deployment environments. Cincom® ObjectStudio® is an ideal solution for developing custom applications for Windows® while Cincom® VisualWorks® is the ideal solution for enterprise-level, multilingual, cross-platform, custom application development. Both ObjectStudio and VisualWorks share the same core libraries and the Cincom Smalltalk Foundation. This means foundation improvements improve both products.Introducing Cincom Smalltalk Version 9.2
We are proud to introduce to you, Cincom Smalltalk Version 9.2. Version 9.x began our path to move the products closer together, with the goal of a future single product and the intent to offer the best of both for our customers. This would allow, for example, VisualWorks users to use the native windows widgets and the modeling and mapping tools of ObjectStudio and would give ObjectStudio users the potential to move applications cross-platform. Version 9.x continues to improve and enhance infrastructures, such as in GUI and TLS/Security areas, to allow continued future improvements while keeping API capability. The types of changes made to the products fall into a few categories:- Required changes – Operating system changes, OS API changes, OS compiler changes, Modern TLS and Security standards
- Customer needs and requirements – Customer feedback may indicate a new feature or product improvement that’s beneficial to many customers.
- Infrastructure work – Enhancing current infrastructure to support new features
- New features
What’s in This Release?
The current releases of Cincom ObjectStudio 9.2 and Cincom VisualWorks 9.2 are major releases and contain fixes and improvements to the last major releases. Recent major releases include: Cincom Smalltalk Foundation 9.2- Store merging enhancements
- Tools:
- Browser subset infrastructure added
- UIPainter undo/redo support
- AppeX
- html tagging support
- JavaScript ES8 support
- HTML & CSS Syntax highlighting
- Web Assets tab in browser
- Security
- Enhanced external encryption
- New external encryption support for MacOS (NW-Plugin)
- TLS-Plugin now standard (TLS removed)
- PostgreSQL
- TLS connections with PostgreSQL
- SASL authentication with PostgreSQL
- PostgreSQL binary connection API
- Next Generation User Interface
- Windows National Language support
- COVID-19 Data Visualization demo using ObjectStudio NGUI
- Timestamped image file
- CSV data explorer tool
- Heat map graph type with examples
- Box Plot graph type with examples
- Choropleth (Map) graph type with examples
- GUI infrastructure work for VisualWorks and tools
- GUI layout improvements
- VisualControl widget updates
Cincom Smalltalk is used for:
- Client, Client/Server, Web Browser, Web Server and distributed applications
- Consistent or on-going and productive application development
- Application development with less maintenance and few problems
- Platform portability and flexibility in application development
- Business Process Analysis and Management
- Citizen development
- Academia – The best solution to teach Object-Oriented development and principles, as well as student-created applications
