EiffelStudioTM Features
Eiffel Software offers several versions of EiffelStudio: the Enterprise Edition, the GPL Edition, and the Evaluation Edition.
The EiffelStudio Enterprise Edition offers a full, rich, expanded feature set and a significantly improved compiler. Using Eiffel's unique features such as Design by ContractTM and multiple inheritance, you'll be able to create the most robust, reusable and fast applications possible - and you'll do it aided by the enhancements and additions of the latest version.
The EiffelStudio GP Edition has all of the features you will find in our Enterprise Edition, without the commercial license. It is for the developers that want to take advantage of EiffelStudio to develop applications that they will release for free and in source code to the programming community.
The EiffelStudio Evaluation Edition too has all of the features of the Enterprise Edition. It offers programmers the freedom to evaluate EiffelStudio, without any limitations in functionalities for 30 days before their purchase.
The Eiffel Development Framework is a rich, thoroughly planned development system - and as such, there are many, many reasons to use EiffelStudio. Here are the top few:
A few of the features of EiffelStudio |
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| Design by Contract | Design by Contract (DBC) is a unique mechanism that demands and simplifies the production of quality software. It ensures that your code will have substantially less errors because it follows "the rules" of development. Our customers tell us that because of DBC they can dramatically lower the number of bugs and spend more time designing. In short it makes programming fun again. |
| Clean Syntax | You can create easy to read classes with Eiffel's simple, unambiguous plain-English syntax. This greater readability makes the development and maintenance of large and/or multi-participant systems about 10 times easier. |
| Genericity for .NET | Eiffel genericity allows classes to be written in a way where it can be reused in a multitude of different scenarios without the need to change any code in the class itself. By employing genericity in your system, you can dramatically reduce the amount of bugs and will end up with far less code to maintain throughout the lifecycle of your software. |
| Multiple Inheritance | Robust multiple inheritance facilities are essential to support combining various abstractions and reusable components. The Eiffel-unique mechanisms of renaming (to eliminate name clashes), "join", and "select" (removes ambiguities from multiple redeclarations) ensure a powerful tool that dramatically improves both modeling and design/implementation. |
| Fast Executables | Eiffel is very performance-focused, and produces executables that are comparable in speed to C/C++ code with far less development effort or expertise required. Eiffel also employs system-wide optimizations that are not possible with other languages. |
| Seamless Framework | No more modeling, and then starting over again to design and implement. EiffelStudio allows you to model bulletproof software, design it, implement it, test it, deploy it, realizing the build-test-deploy process - in one continuous flow, within the same tool, in the same language. |
| Portability | Allows you to create applications once and run them virtually anywhere. Not `create once, debug everywhere' as you find in other "multi-platform" solutions. |
| .NET compatibility | EiffelStudio is fully .NET compliant, allowing you to create open applications that can interoperate and share code with any other .NET language. |
| Ideal Migration path to .NET | EiffelStudio allows you to migrate from another platform (say, Unix) to .NET without having to `freeze' the current application, and without having to create a project so large that it would be totally unmanageable. |
| Best tool for business critical applications | When you need something that will not fail, and that will be cost-effective, EiffelStudio is the ideal choice as a development framework. With it over the years companies generated significant cost saving by automating and accelerating the build-test-deploy process. |
| Powerful new GUI library | We have entirely redesigned EiffelBuild which gives developers the ability to create powerful multi-platform GUIs that will run identically on any of our supported platforms. |
| Reusable code | Allows to shorten development time by a factor of 2 to as much as 10 times and gives the opportunity for cost savings and productivity improvements that lie in the back end of software development. |
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