Hi Manoj et.al,
Forte 4GL was the intermediate name of Forte Application Environment or FAE steming from Forte Software Inc. with it's Release 1 (general available as FADE (Forte Application Development Environment) in 1994. Sun Microsystems acquired Forte Software in October 1999 and re-branded Forte Application Environment twith Forte Fourth Generation Language and afterwards within Sun's iPlanet software division to iPlanet Unified Development Server or short UDS. Since 2 months iPlanet is no longer existent but got renamed to SunONE. Hence the actual product name for FAE/Forte 4GL is SunONE UDS, the SunONE Unified Development Server. Forte for Java does not have to do anything with UDS or Forte 4GL. Forte for Java stems from Netbeans, a Czech company aquired by Sun in October 1999 (same month than the Forte Software and StarOffice aquisitions through Sun). But even the generic C/C++ or Fortran compilers for Sun Sparc Solaris and Sun Intel Solaris were rebranded Forte C/C++ and Forte Fortran, so there were even other Forte products out in between either. That's today now all SunONE Studio but back to the ~real~ Forte which is UDS. UDS (Forte 4GL) is a C++ Runtime Environment coming with an integrated development environment (IDE) with an own 4GL (TOOL = Transactional Object Oriented Language) which is from its syntax similar to C++ or Java but was existent years before Java came out by James Gosling from the Sun labs. UDS runs across multiple platforms (Unix,VMS,OS/390,Win95/98/ME/NT/W2K or XP) as client (Windows + Motif desktop) but is primarily a high scaleable application server with features like partitioning, load balancing and failover. UDS can execute in interpreted mode via an interpreter (FTEXEC). However in contrast to Java, there is no compilation at runtime happening each time. The FTEXEC (Forte Executor) processes pseudo code from an application partition image repository (the formerly compiled interpreted application code). However UDS can generate C++ code and execute at runtime as native compiled C++ code supporting native operating system's kernel threads. That's the highest performance you might get these days (if your app logic is performant). UDS is the base runtime for Sun's EAI flagship which is SunONE Integration Server EAI Edition formerly Forte Fusion or Forte Conductor. Enough said, here are the internet start pages with lots of information about the actual UDS release which is UDS 5.0.x (or Integration Server EAI Edition Version 3.0.x) : UDS (FAE/Forte 4GL) : http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/unified_devsrvr/home_unified_dev.html Complete Documentation set in Adobe PDF format: http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/uds.html Integration Server EAI Edition (Forte Fusion) : http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/integration_srvr_eai/home_int_eai.html Integration Server Docs : http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/iis.html Rest SunONE former iPlanet products : http://wwws.sun.com/software/product_family/iplanet.html iPlanet Knowledgebase : http://knowledgebase.iplanet.com UDS is one of the top secrets of Sun, a jewel from within the SunONE software stack. All the Best from Germany ! Thomas SunONE Software Division (Former Manager Technical Support Central Europe Forte Software) At 18:17 11.06.2002 +0530, manoj wrote: >Hi All, >Can anyone give me detailed info on Forte 4GL --- I would like to know >what exactly it is... >I could not get detailed info on Forte 4GL - where can I find it. > >Looking for ur great response... > >Thankyou, > >Regards, >Manoj >To change your membership options, refer to: >http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
