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Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelStudio 6.0

Latest Release Brings new Mechanism for GUI and Offers Internationalization
 

Santa Barbara, CA, June 19, 2007 -- Eiffel Software announced today the release of EiffelStudio 6.0, the latest version of its award-winning Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This major release brings a new look and feel to the IDE and enables non English speaking users to use the technology in their own language as well as internationalize the applications they will develop.

“It’s fantastic to work at Eiffel Software, we get to use all of the latest tools developments and enhancements before anyone else!” said Paul Bates, Senior Software Developer with Eiffel Software. “The docking mechanism in EiffelStudio 6.0 is something I know everyone, especially me, have been waiting for. No one user is the same so the docking mechanism is a top enhancement for 6.0.”

EiffelStudio 6.0 comes with a host of new features and tools such as:

  • New docking facilities which let you control the layout of tools in EiffelStudio. One can also lock the layout to prevent unwanted changes.
  • New tabbed editor.
  • Added configurable pick and drop which lets you choose between traditional context menu or pick and drop for a mouse right click operation.
  • EiffelStudio is now internationalized, it fully supports English, Chinese and German. A partial translation for French and Russian is provided.
  • New ISO/ECMA Eiffel standard mechanisms (multi-constraint, octal and binary notation for integers).
  • Shortcuts can now be customized.
  • Added dependency view so supplier/client dependency of a group/folder/class can be investigated. Feature calls are included in dependency view.

Other new features are listed at:
http://docs.eiffel.com/eiffelstudio/tools/eiffelstudio/reference/02_what_s_new/Eiffel60.html.

Portability has always been one of the strengths of EiffelStudio and this new release continues in that same tradition. EiffelStudio 6.0 is available on the following platforms:

  • Windows Classic, .NET, and 64 bits
  • Linux, Linux PPC and 64 bits
  • FreeBSD
  • Solaris 10 on Sparc, Sparc-64, x86 and x86-64
  • SGI Irix
  • VMS, Embedded ...
EiffelStudio 6.0, comes with dual licensing. Users can decide between the Commercial License or the Open-Source license of the environment. A full feature evaluation edition is available from Eiffel Software website at http://www.eiffel.com/downloads/ so that prospects can experience the full power of the environment before purchasing it.

"EiffelStudio 6.0 is a major release bringing lots of new features and tools to the software community," said Larry Miller, Director of Business Development at Eiffel Software." The most exciting one for me is internationalization as it will enable programmers around the world to use EiffelStudio in their language of choice and release their applications in multiple languages."

EiffelStudio is based on the widely acclaimed Eiffel programming language which is purely object-oriented and standardized through ECMA and ISO. Its core concepts, native only to Eiffel, such as Design-by-Contract, multiple inheritance, genericity... allow developers to write high quality applications that are easy to maintain. Eiffel, which recently received the ACM Software Systems Award, is used by developers and design-team leaders in challenging enterprise environments in the financial, insurance, manufacturing, health, and government sectors as well as by independent development teams.
 

About Eiffel Software


Eiffel software, http://www.eiffel.com, was founded in 1985 with the mission of developing compilers and tools based on the power of pure object-oriented concepts to improve programmers' productivity, lifecycle efficiency and quality of the resulting applications. For twenty years Eiffel Software has delivered to its customer base the most cost-effective and advanced development tools on a large variety of platforms. Thanks to the power of the language and the tools of the environment, Eiffel users continuously demonstrate that they can produce 2 to 10 times as much software in the same amount of time as can be achieved using other IDEs and toolsets. For more information, contact us or call (805) 685-1006.

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