Extension mechanisms in Montana

Author

Soroker, Danny ; Karasick, Michael ; Barton, John ; Streeter, David

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

18-19 Jun 1997

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

128

Abstract

Montana is a new C++ programming environment being developed at IBM. Montana aims to improve the software development experience by providing rapid incremental builds, rapid complete builds, and a tightly integrated user interface driven from a single source of information. Montana uses a program representation (CodeStore) to achieve these aims, with compilation proceeding directly from the database. APIs for accessing information about programs from the CodeStore are also made available for tool builders. In this paper we focus on the extension mechanism in Montana, which enables integration of existing tools and creation of new sophisticated, tightly integrated tools

Keywords

C language; application program interfaces; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; program compilers; programming environments; software tools; user interfaces; API; C++ programming environment; CodeStore; IBM; Montana; application program interface; compilation; database; extension mechanism; integrated user interface; program representation; rapid complete builds; rapid incremental builds; software development; software tools; tool builders; Databases; Graphical user interfaces; Information resources; Laboratories; Message service; Program processors; Programming environments; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Software Engineering, 1997., Proceedings of the Eighth Israeli Conference on

Conference_Location

Herzliya

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8135-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCSSE.1997.599883

Filename

599883