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 9.1.1
We are proud to introduce to you, Cincom Smalltalk Version 9.1.1. 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
We know our customers have a large investment in developed applications, and we focus on providing improvements with compatibility.
What’s in This Release?
The current releases of Cincom ObjectStudio 9.1.1 and Cincom VisualWorks 9.1.1 are maintenance releases and contain fixes and improvements to the last major releases.
Recent major releases include:
Cincom Smalltalk Foundation 9.1
- Opentalk-STST remote communication upgrade
- Tabbed Windows API
- OAuth 2.0 support
- TLS external encryption plugin enhancements
- TLS encryption certificate API
- MatriX multi-core framework now supported
- MySQL API JSON support
- SiouX web server secure connections with TLS
- Timestamp enhancements
- Time zone enhancements
- Platform updates
- COVID-19 Data Visualization demo using ObjectStudio NGUI
- ObjectStudio TrendBarCharts
- ObjectStudio floating data info display (such as tooltips)
- GUI infrastructure work for VisualWorks and tools
- Glorp query enhancements
- HTTP/2 support
- AppeX ES6 JavaScript support
- New DITA-based help system
- GUI infrastructure work for VisualWorks and tools
To learn more about these new releases, please see the product release notes. The release notes contain new feature descriptions and descriptions of the ARs and support resolutions that were addressed. If we can assist you in any way, please contact the Cincom Smalltalk Product Team here.
Our Personal Use License products feature a much improved “Getting Started” section that is full of information, how-to screencasts and tutorials for those who are new to our products or Smalltalk.
There are many more fixes and changes. Please refer to the release notes for details. The release notes contain new-feature descriptions as well as descriptions of the ARs and support resolutions that were addressed.
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
