Welcome
These frequently asked questions and answers are designed to provide better understanding of VAST Platform (VA Smalltalk), a comprehensive integrated software development environment built on the proven power and productivity of Smalltalk.
You can download a trial copy of the latest version of VA Smalltalk from the Instantiations website.
This page gives you a roadmap of where to go to get quick answers to commonly asked questions about VA Smalltalk answered. More comprehensive and in depth answers are available in the full online documentation.
• What is VAST Platform covers information about the product’s history and connections within the Smalltalk community.
• General Information concerns VA Smalltalk and the environment in which it operates.
• Smalltalk Programming Language treats basic programming issues.
• Platform Support considers questions specific to one or another of the operating system platforms supported by VA Smalltalk.
• 64-bit Support considers questions related to usage of VA Smalltalk 64-bit.
• EMSRV covers information about the EMSRV utility which allows multiple users to share a code library.
• Development Environment covers the tools available for developing applications in VA Smalltalk.
• Graphical User Interface concerns user interface components available for applications in VA Smalltalk.
• National Language Support discusses questions encountered in tailoring a VA Smalltalk application to accommodate multiple national languages.
• Communications considers questions encountered when a VA Smalltalk application communicates to third party applications using TCP/IP, MQ, APPC, HLLAPI, and CICS.
• Database covers issues with certain usage of DB/2, ODBC, Oracle or GLORP in your VA Smalltalk application.
• External Interfaces concerns programmatic interfaces to third party applications
• Reports concerns the Report feature of VA Smalltalk which generates black and white printed reports from streams, collections, database result tables, or other iterable objects.
• Server Smalltalk concerns the Server Smalltalk (SST) feature of VA Smalltalk which facilitates the construction of components capable of distributed processing.
• Web Services concerns the web services feature of VA Smalltalk which supports the construction of applications which are accessible from other applications using Web services protocols.
• Seaside concerns the Seaside feature of VA Smalltalk which supports the construction of applications which are accessible from an Internet browser.
• Web Connection concerns the Web connection feature of VA Smalltalk
Last modified date: 01/02/2023