Introducing the Smalltalk development environment

The development environment consists of the Smalltalk language and many tools to support application development. This state-of-the-art Smalltalk development environment enables you to quickly develop, manage, and package applications, including client-server applications.

The development environment consists of an executable program and other files. A typical programming session includes starting the environment, browsing and editing source code from within the environment, saving the changes, and exiting the environment.

If you have VA Smalltalk, the development environment is seamlessly integrated with the VA Smalltalk visual programming tools. Thus, you can use components that you create in the development environment in visual programs, and view programs created with the visual programming tools within the development browsers.