Softbench
{{Short description|Plug-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE)}}
HP Softbench was one of the first plug-in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool based on the UNIX operating system, UNIX tools and the X Window System.
The main ideas were:
- Tools and data can reside on many different systems across the network
- Tool communication using a Broadcast Message Server
- Common user interface
- Integrated help facility
- Tool Slots
- Encapsulator: tool for encapsulate any CASE tool into a Tool Slot if it supports standard I/O.
History
SoftBench was released in 1989 and presented in the June 1990 HP Journal.{{cite journal |last1=Cagan |first1=Martin R. |title=The HP SoftBench Environment: An Architecture for a New Generation of Software Tools |journal=Hewlett-Packard Journal |volume=41 |issue=3 |date=June 1990 |pages=36–47}} It was an early adoption of some of the IDE ideas that are common today in well known IDEs like Eclipse.
References
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- HP Softbench has reserved ports 6110-6111 in the [https://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers IANA list of port assignments] List of TCP and UDP port numbers
- {{cite conference |last1=Bark |first1=R. |title=HP SoftBench-support for distributed working |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/182074 |url-access=subscription |book-title=Architectures for Distributed Development Support Environments, IEE Colloquium on |conference=Architectures for Distributed Development Support Environments 1991 |location=Savoy Place |date=4 November 1991 |pages=7/1–7/5}}
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