Forté 4GL is an IDE, it all happens in one place. the Design, the Development, the Versioning, the Deployment & the Monitoring.a development team has a Forté environment and a shared development Repository, each member has a Workspace in this repository that they access using the Forté Workshop.
from the Workshop (usually called Studio outside Forté Software Inc.) the team member can create, check in, check out classes, synchronise his Workspace with others',
define a logical partitioning of the application and deploy the logical parts to remote servers.the only thing that needs another tool is the monitoring.
this is done through an environment console called eConsole and used to load application definition, install the application fragments on the relevant servers, start or stop them, view the logs or modify runtime parameters.the used language is called TOOL for Transaction Object Oriented Language.
there is weakness though, there aren't any modelling tools per say, and getting a clear picture of the class tree and class relation diagram is not easy. plus every project, class, method ... opens in a new window, standard behaviour under Mac OS 9 but can be annoying to MS users.
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