EASEL Workbench

EASEL Workbench
Name	Easel Workbench
Version	2.0 (1993)
Vendor	Easel Software Corp.
Author
Licence	Commercial
WWW

Easel Workbench is an OS/2 2.0 based development environment for building client/server and cooperative processing applications and renovating existing host-based applications with CUA compliant GUIs. Easel Workbench provides the tools for taking the developer through the edit, compile, debug, and test cycle of application development.

Features

The visual programming tools include a Layout Editor, which supports IBM’s SAA CUA guidelines, a Drawing Editor, a Menu Editor, and an Attribute Editor. Other editing tools include a built-in Text-Editor and a Librarian. The debugging tools consist of a Source Level Debugger and Trace Facilities.

SQL database support:

• Microsoft SQL Server
• IBM OS/2 Database Manager

Communications support:

• 3270
• PC Support/5250
• VT100 (asynchronous)

Advanced Program-to-Program Communications (APPC) and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) are also supported. Application production compilers for OS/2, Windows or MS-DOS were available.

Versions

EASEL/2

Interactive Images, Inc.

• 1.0 (1989)
• 1.1 (1990)

EASEL Client Services replaced EASEL/2, EASEL/Win and EASEL/DOS Runtime Systems.

EASEL Workbench

Easel Corporation

• 1.0 (Jul 1991)
• 2.0 (1993) - SQL Edition, Corporate Edition
• ESL Workbench 4.0 for OS/2 (1994)

VMark

• ESL 5 (1994) - 32-bit version for Windows

Ardent Software

• 5.2

TC Group

• 5.21

ESL Syndetic

• 5.42 (Oct 2002)
• 5.50 (Feb 2005)
• 7.01 (Mar 2007)
• 20.20 (Jun 2020)

Publications

• Kevin Kornfeld: Front-ending Applications with EASEL - IBM Personal Systems Developer
• Easel Workbench: Robust Client/Server Development - OS/2 Developer V3N5 (1993)

Links

• https://www.easel.support