POWERSOFT'S WATCOM PRODUCTS DIVISION SHIPS WATCOM VX REXX OBJECT DEVELOPMENT KIT; Enables the Creation of Objects for VX REXX's Development Environment.WATERLOO, Ontario Coordinates: Waterloo is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the larger city of Kitchener. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1995-- Powersoft's Watcom Products Division today announced shipment of the Watcom VX REXX (REstructured EXtended eXecutor) An IBM mainframe structured programming language that runs under VM/CMS and MVS/TSO. It can be used as a general-purpose macro language that sends commands to application programs and to the operating systems. Object Development Kit for OS/2. With the Object Development Kit (ODK ODK Order of the Dying Knights ODK Online Disk Suite (Sun Solaris Product) ODK Omicron Delta Kappa - National Honors Society for Student Leaders ODK Object Discovery Agent Development Kit ODK Office Development Kit ), developers can easily create native VX REXX objects and seamlessly incorporate these objects into the Watcom VX REXX development environment. Watcom VX REXX is an award-winning visual development environment for creating OS/2 applications with rich graphical user interfaces. It combines a project management facility, a visual designer and an interactive source level debugger to deliver an easy to use and highly productive visual development environment. The ODK extends the power of VX REXX by enabling the creation of new objects and enhancing the functionality of existing objects. "Our customers and vendor partners will benefit from the ease with which they can create and customize objects using the VX REXX Object Development Kit," said Dave Boswell Dave won 20 games in 1969, helping the Twins win the American League West. , vice president of marketing, Powersoft's Watcom Products Division. "This increased flexibility will enable developers to create more powerful OS/2 applications." Easy Object Creation and Management Using the Object Development Kit, developers familiar with C programming and the System Object Model (SOM), can quickly and easily create VX REXX custom objects. "The Watcom VX REXX Object Development Kit is a blazingly fast tool for ISVs who are developing repackageable VX REXX objects," said Doug Bebber, president, DB Technologies, Inc. "It makes SOM much easier to use and it extends the power of OS/2. The boost to our productivity is surprising -- developing VX REXX objects has become a one-step process." Objects are packaged into dynamic link libraries, called object libraries, which can then be loaded into the VX REXX design environment. The resulting objects appear in the VX REXX tools window and can be used in the same way as VX REXX's pre-defined objects. Starting a new object library is as simple as creating a new VX REXX project. A developer drags a project template, answers several questions and the Object Development Kit generates all the necessary header files, SOM class files and library files needed to build and link the object library to VX REXX's development environment. The new class browser A software tool in an object-oriented language that lets you scroll through and edit a hierarchical tree of objects. A refactoring browser makes it easier to move routines by ensuring that all linkages are maintained properly. allows developers to easily view and modify the SOM class hierarchy (programming) class hierarchy - A set of classes and their interrelationships. One class may be a specialisation (a "subclass" or "derived class") of another which is one of its "superclasses" or "base classes". instead of directly editing SOM class files. The Object Development Kit's documentation describes in detail the VX REXX architecture, how to build and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. object libraries, common traps and pitfalls to avoid, how to build bound controls and includes a complete reference of all the functions and methods. Several working examples are also provided with complete source code. Pricing and Availability Watcom VX REXX Object Development Kit Version 2.1 is currently available at a suggested retail price of $199 and includes software and printed documentation. Objects created with the VX REXX Object Development Kit may be distributed royalty-free. In addition to the VX REXX ODK, a C compiler Noun 1. C compiler - a compiler for programs written in C compiling program, compiler - (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program , the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) OS/2 2.1 Toolkit and Watcom VX REXX Version 2.1 are required for object development. Supported C compilers include Watcom C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ Version 10.0 or later and IBM CSet Version 2.1. Headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Powersoft's Watcom Products Division is a leading developer of application development tools and PC SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. database products. Watcom VX REXX is an award-winning visual development environment for creating OS/2 applications with rich graphical user interfaces. Watcom SQL delivers the simplicity, openness, scalability and cost-effectiveness required for mobile, desktop and workgroup environments. Watcom's C/C++ products offer industry-leading optimizing compiler technology for Intel-based PCs. Powersoft Corporation is a division of Sybase, Inc. For more information on Watcom and its products, please visit the company's World Wide Web site at http://www.watcom.com/. -0- Sybase, Powersoft and Watcom are trademarks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. CONTACT: Karen Ali Robert Beauregard Powersoft, Lois Paul & Partners Watcom Products Division (617) 862-4514 (519) 886-3700 |
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