News (October 2017)

EDM/2 Wiki Updates

EDM/2 is the premier site to find OS/2 software development information.

There haven't been EDM/2 news posted to the public in a long time, but the work to update the wiki continues. Since the last post news (September 2013) there had been a lot of clean up work on the articles and content that has been updated.

Here it is a quick summary of the latest changed on the Wiki.

New Articles

This are the new articles included on the Wiki since the last news post:

• The ACPI Project Architecture
• USBCalls
• IBM OS/2 Device Driver Development Kit - 2016-10-31
• IBM WorkFrame/2 API - 2016-10-20
• Compiling "OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming" Samples on 2016 by Martín Itúrbide (July, 2016)
• The Quick and Dirty "Hello World" with GCC by Martín Itúrbide (May 31, 2016)
• PostWhat WPS Class Example (Dec, 2013)

Non-EDM/2 Republished Articles

There are several OS/2, ArcaOS and eComStation programming articles floating around. When the authors authorize to republish their articles, it can be included on the wiki.

The re-published articles on the EDM/2 wiki are:

• SOM Collection Classes: A Primer for the VisualAge COBOL Programmer by Robert A. Pittman, Jr. (Jul 1996)
• OS/2 Warp Server: An Architectural Primer by Philip Lieberman (Jun 1996)
• Building Object-Oriented Applications from Existing C Code by Gregory Piamonte(Aug 1996)
• Enabling Industrial-Strength OO Applications with SOM and CORBAservices by Geoff Hambrick (Apr 1996)
• IBM System Object Model--The Wave of the Future (and Now!) by Rick Weaver (Apr 1996)
• Why SOM? by Brian Curran (Apr 1996)
• OpenDoc and Human-Computer Interaction by Ralph M. Pipitone (Oct 1995)
• Getting Object-Oriented with DB2 for OS/2 V2.1 By Rick Weaver (Aug 1995)
• Designing Lotus Notes Applications That Perform by Lisa Woody (February 1996)
• OS/2 Warp 4: Java by Andrew Johnson & Matthew Vaughton (Dec 1996)
• OS/2 Warp 4: Develop with Java by Herman Rodriguez, Miguel Sang (Dec 1996)
• Using Watcom C/C++ 11.0c on OS/2‎ by Michal Necasek (November 2001)
• Nonformal introduction to ADA-95 by Leonid Dulman (1996-Nov)

Books and Tutorials

We did some rearrangement on the past and generated this new article with OS/2 related Development documentation.

• List of OS/2 Documentation

Extra updates

The OS/2 API Project

There had been also an important effort to continue with "The OS/2 API Project" and consolidate more information about the OS/2 native API and also third party libraries.

The File by File Documentation Project

On the EDM/2 wiki there are also the effort to document more information about each of OS/2's files. The files are listed under Category:Files.

OS/2's Components

Trying to get a different way to view all OS/2's components there is also the Components category on this page Category:Components, when we try to explain the building blocks that compose OS/2 .

I want to thank all the authors that allowed their articles and documentation to be published on the EDM/2 wiki.

Please visit: http://www.edm2.com

Help is always welcome, contact me if you want to help me with the wiki.