Building Applications with VisualAge Smalltalk

Course Description

This five-day course details the use of VisualAge Smalltalk for building large-scale Smalltalk enterprise applications. Participants design and create visual and non-visual parts for the user interface, controller, and domain model layers of a typical application architecture. To access a relational database, participants use VisualAge database parts and construct relational database brokers. Large-scale team development and application packaging are covered as well. Participants work together on a comprehensive team project. The course format is 40% lecture and 60% hands-on computer time.

Audience

Developers who will be designing and programming large-scale object-oriented applications in VisualAge for Smalltalk

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the Introduction toVisualAge Smalltalk, or six months of VisualAge for Smalltalk experience

 

Day 1	Day 2
Introduction Visual and non-visual parts The VisualAge Organizer Creating parts The Parts Palette Connections for events and actions Features of VisualAge parts VisualAge public interface Smalltalk objects vs. VisualAge parts The Composition Editor "Producer" parts View wrappers	Framing specifications Types of attachments Hover help Menu parts Promoting features Fonts and colors The Public Interface Editor Attributes and actions Review of Smalltalk Writing Smalltalk scripts The Script Editor
Day 3	Day 4
Domain modeling Creating domain objects VisualAge variables Composite parts Collections The Object Factory part Creating "Producer" parts Application architecture Layering applications Steps of application development Team development with ENVY Sharing work with others Organizational team development strategy	VisualAge relational database parts Connection specifications Creating access sets The Multi-row Query part Approaches for persistent data storage Database brokers Mapping objects to relational tables Handling complex object storage Broker guidelines
Day 5
File in and file out Import and export	Packaging VisualAge applications Development vs. runtime images