This book includes information about the VA Smalltalk Server Workbench and Server features. The Server Workbench feature has the following components:

The Server Workbench, Base component is the core of the Server Workbench feature and provides cross-platform development support for servers. The other components provide runtime classes that support CICS, database, and so on.

The Server feature provides redistributable files needed to run your packaged applications in server environments.

This book also has information about other features that help you build applications that run in a server environment:

These products are collectively referred to throughout this book as "VA Smalltalk Server" or "Smalltalk Server."

This book helps you use the VA Smalltalk Server products. It gives both guidance and reference information needed to prepare Smalltalk applications for processing in a server environment. It covers how to create applications in the workstation development environment, package those applications for a target runtime platform, run the applications in a server environment, and perform many other tasks.

Throughout this book, the term "workstation" applies generically to Windows and all UNIX development environments unless otherwise noted. Information applicable to specific development environments is noted accordingly.

Throughout this book, the term "Windows" applies generically to the Windows operating systems that can be used as servers. Information applicable to specific Windows environments is noted accordingly.