- Softbench
HP Softbench was an integrated CASE tool (IDE) built on the
UNIX operating system, UNIX tools and theX 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. It was an early adoption of some of the IDE ideas that are common today in well known IDEs like Eclipse.
References
1. Hewlett-Packard Journal, Vol. 41, no. 3, June 1990, pp. 6-68.
2. HP Softbench has reserved ports 6110-6111 in the [http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers IANA list of port assignments]List of TCP and UDP port numbers
3. HP SoftBench-support for distributed working Bark, R. Architectures for Distributed Development Support Environments, IEE Colloquium on Volume , Issue , 4 Nov 1991 Page(s):7/1 - 7/5
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