Taligent's CommonPoint: The Promise of Objects

  • Authors:
  • Ware Myers

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Taligent has begun to lift the cover on its ambitious framework- based development environment: The CommonPoint Application Environment, the Taligent Development Environment (TalDE), and Taligent Object Services (TalOS). The CommonPoint Application Environment contains more than 100 frameworks that provide the functionality required across most client domains. TalDE contains the tools useful in object-oriented and, more specifically, framework-based development. Though currently running on top of 32-bit multitasking operating systems from IBM and Hewlett-Packard, Taligent will soon provide its own fully object-oriented operating system, TalOS. The new environment suggests the tantalizing possibility of "zero- lines-of-code programming." This article provides a closer look at this open, portable architecture that is both hardware and operating system independent.