World Class Objects offers a unique set of products and services to the Visualworks Smalltalk programmer in the areas of robust client/server transaction processing and middleware for legacy data access.

The company's products include VLab which supports the front-ending of mainframe applications with reusable object interfaces and ClassMate, an advanced client/server development framework and visual toolset for building Smalltalk application components supporting, reuse, distributed function, application partitioning and transaction processing through tight integration with both commercial open systems transaction processors such as the Tuxedo as well as legacy interfaces such as EHLLAPI and APPC.

The goals of the World Class Objects product set are to provide tools that recognize the evolutionary nature of reinventing the IT systems inventory and to provide pre-engineered pragmatic solutions that meets the following objectives:

• Provide a state of the art development environment to enable the building of robust mission critical, distributed business applications utilizing object technology.
• Address the issues involved with refurbishment and reuse of legacy application code, access to and use of existing data and promotion of gradual evolution rather then revolutionary re-deployment.
• Provide high-level support for the integration of heterogeneous application topologies such as remote data access, multi-level transaction processing, transactional client-server, local PC applications, distributed functions (RPC) and distributed objects (CORBA).
• Allow for the inter-mixing of distributed topologies in the context of a single application (for example, WAN/LAN, mainframe/client-server, ...).
• Provide platform portability for the developed application as well as the availability of the development environment on multiple platforms.
• Substantially aid in the productivity of designers and programmers through techniques and technologies such as distributed, reusable objects and application generation.

For inquiries please contact: mclean@wcobjects.com or phone: 617-890-6260