Technical Details for IBM VisualAge Smalltalk Server Workbench 5.5 Upgrade

IBM VisualAge Smalltalk Server Workbench 5.5 Upgrade ... distributed object-oriented applications. The Server Smalltalk framework was designed to leverage existing services in order to comply with industry standards and present the application developer with a familiar set of tools and components.

Server Smalltalk works by breaking down the major elements of distributed computing, for example communications mechanisms, into pluggable components. These Server Smalltalk components are combined together using configuration objects and coupled with business logic to produce robust distributed computing applications. Like applications that use CORBA and Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Server Smalltalk uses message passing as the basis for object interaction. This is the fundamental mechanism that facilitates all communication between Smalltalk images and other distributed components, such as a Java virtual machine. Server Smalltalk differs from both CORBA and Java RMI, providing greater flexibility for distributed architectures that vary depending on the core framework components.