Smalltalk applications are big with corporate developers and that's a problem.
And deploying those big Smalltalk applications can be a real challenge. Calif. Hoping to ease that problem, Smalltalk vendor ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. in Sunnyvale,Calif., has rolled out a new version of its VisualWorks Smalltalk development system. VisualWorks 2.5 lets developers break an application into a set of smaller components. That removes a major stumbling block for corporate developers, making it much easier to slim down fat clients, users said. With the release, developers can leave out unneeded features from Smalltalk applications.