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C++ development environment and an application generator for OS/2 that could also generate code for MS Windows. Introduced in 1992 and originally written as a tool for developing GUI front ends for the AS/400 software products from the [[JBA Holdings]] company but was extended into a general business application development tool. | C++ development environment and an application generator for OS/2 that could also generate code for MS Windows. Introduced in 1992 and originally written as a tool for developing GUI front ends for the AS/400 software products from the [[JBA Holdings]] company but was extended into a general business application development tool. | ||
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Description
C++ development environment and an application generator for OS/2 that could also generate code for MS Windows. Introduced in 1992 and originally written as a tool for developing GUI front ends for the AS/400 software products from the JBA Holdings company but was extended into a general business application development tool.
You build your application in a GUI designer then write the back end in either C++ or in a proprietary event driven fourth generation language called JOT, Guidelines then generated C++ code from your front-end design and JOT code and you compiled it with your choice of C++ compatible compiler suite, or had Guidelines do it for you. In addition the company offered optional Client/Server back ends for AS/400, Unix SQL servers and ODBC.
Version 3.3 introduced quite advanced support for CORBA object message passing, including over a network.
While Guidelines did nothing in the OS/2 or Windows marketplaces it survived as an in house tool and was used for most PC system development at the company, however a number of people hacked the Guidelines package to act as a GUI builder for other systems, the first version of Visual Ada Developer used the package as its front end for instance.
Version
- Latest OS/2 version: Version 3.3 - 1996.
Prerequisites
- OS/2 2.1 or higher
One of the following C++ compiler products:
Early versions of the software required IBM C SET++ 2.01 or IBM VisualAge 3.0 C++ OS/2 and the OS/2 Developers Toolkit to compile the Guidelines output, later versions will not support C SET.
Publications
- Teach yourself JBA Guidelines in 21 days by mtalexa@ibm.net
Links
- Demo version of Gudelines 3.1 - From hobbes
License
- Commercial, now discontinued.
The retail price for JBA Guidelines was :
- Guidelines Base pack: Free - Essentially a GUI creator without any background C++ generation, so both functional as a small time GUI creator and as a demo for the full package.
- Professional Developers Kit $595
- Client/Server Connectivity $995
- MS Windows Code Generation $395
- Database Connectivity Pack (ODBC) $395
- Lotus Notes Support Pack $99
or
- Guidelines for Corporate Developers $7750 per seat.