VisualAge for Java

VisualAge for Java was the IBM Java development platform that was available for Windows and OS/2, the original version was based around the same Smalltalk based development environment as the rest of the development tools in the VisualAge Family but by version 3 it had become mostly native Java code. Released in several languages like English, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish.

Large portions of VA Java were open sourced by IBM and live on as the Eclipse project.

Latest Version

• Latest OS/2 version: VisualAge for Java 3.02

Was available in Personal (Free download), Professional and Enterprise Editions. The Enterprise Edition in some instances require the EE version of Java that was only made available by IBM to larger clients and not to the public at large.

• Latest Microsoft Windows version: IBM VisualAge for Java 4.0

Was available in Professional and Enterprise Editions

Links

• IBM FTP VAJava Patches

License

• IBM commercial software. Discontinued.

Author

• IBM

Related Articles

• VisualAge for Java Professional by Gordon Zeglinski (April 1998)

Publications

• IBM RedBook - VisualAge for Java Version 3: Persistence Builder with GUIs, Servlets, and Java Server Pages
• IBM RedBook - IBM WebSphere and VisualAge for Java Database Integration with DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server
• Software Announcement - IBM VisualAge for Java for OS/2 and for Windows, Version 1.0