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From: rfenney@netcom.com (Robert J. Fenney)
Subject: Re: Which application development system?
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 04:48:18 GMT
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If all you want is a GUI frunt end then a Smalltalk development
environment would be a good solution. If you really want to get your hands
around your legacy systems and build on them then I would use a CORBA ORB
environment as the core development tool and then a Smalltalk environment
as the programming tool. The CORBA ORB will help you isolate your existing
enterprise systems and help you build an extention platform for the
future.


Robert

In article <4q46qf$bap@loki.tor.hookup.net>, quenton@Cherniak.ON.CA
(Dennis Smith) wrote:

> This is not strictly a smalltalk question, and I may be dealing with some bias
> by asking on this newsgroup, but I have no problem with an ST answer.
> 
> If one were looking to provide a GUI front-end to accessing a number of
> existing legacy systems (databases mostly, but even some
> applications), as well as adding additional data, both added to existing
> business concepts (note I don't say "objects"), as well as perhaps
> adding some new business objects, what would the "best" development
> environment be?   I am asking for opinions, not necessarily the
> established fact.
> 
> Note that most of the data will reside in legacy databases, the amount of
> data that would be added would be a small percentage of existing data.
> 
> The legacy systems would be expected to remain in place
> indefinitely
