Menlo Park, California-based Versant Object Technology Inc has come out with the Versant Interactive C++ Tool Set, the first C++ software system for developing graphical end-user business applications in object-oriented environments. The Interactive C++ Tool Set is also designed to add interactive graphical interfaces to existing C++ applications and to support multimedia, workgroup and second-generation client-server applications. The company claims that it is the first graphical tool set specifically designed to make C++ code re-use a practical reality. The Tool Set is tightly integrated with the Versant object database, providing a delivery environment and enabling developers to take full advantage of the client-server features in the database, including check-out and check-in to personal and group databases and versioning. It works with standard OSF/Motif and third party C++ class libraries. It includes an interpreted C++ subset that excludes the more complex features of C++ for initially defining classes. It consists of Versant Screen, a tool that enables users to create highly interactive applications; the Interactive Object SQL uses SQL-like statements to access and manipulate objects within the Versant database and Versant Report interactive report generator. Screen and Interactive Object SQL are currently available; Report will be out next quarter. No prices or details of the hardware environments that are supported were given by Versant.
