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Object-Oriented Language: Forté / TOOL

• Intro
  • The Forté Application Environment provides on object-oriented multi-tier development environment designed for producing scaleable enterprise applications.  Applications are built as a monolithic system, and then partitioned onto various platforms to distribute processing to the proper system, provide load balancing, or to utilize platform specific features.
  • The Forté Application Environment currently uses its own language, called TOOL.  The next major release will also support Java as its development language in addition to TOOL. A Java only development system is now available as Forte For Java (formerly called SynerJ).
  • Forté runs on a variety of platforms including Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, HP-UX, Solaris, DG/UX, AIX DYNIX, OpenVMS, Digital Unix, and OS/390.  Databases supported include Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Open Ingress, MS Acess, ODBC, DB2, and RDB.  External interfaces provided include Apple Events, DCE, ObjectBroker, ActiveX, OLE, Java, OrbixWeb, and VisiBroker.
  • Forté is now a division of Sun Microsystems Inc.
• Contents
  • Start here
  • Central Sites
  • Link Collections
  • FAQs
  • Support
  • General Newsgroups
  • Mailing Lists
  • Organizations
• Other pages
  • Distributed Objects & Components / General
  • Java / General
  • Languages

• Start here
  • Product Overview (Forté)
  • Forté for Java Product Overview (Forté)
  • Netbeans, free version of Java development tool
• Central Sites
  • Forté Software (Forté)
• Link Collections
  • Forte by Pianissimo (Nishimoto Kazuo)
• FAQs
  • Forte' FAQs (Vikas Malik)
• Support
  • Forté Support and Services (Forté)
  • Forté Products from Digital (Digital)
• General Newsgroups
  •  comp.soft-sys.app-builder.forte
• Mailing Lists
  • Forté-Users Mail List (Sage IT Partners)
  • Forté-Users-Annouce Mail List (Sage IT Partners)
• Organizations
  • Forté Central User Group
  • Forté Eastern Canada Users Group