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.

Versions

• Jul/Aug 1997 - Version 1.0 (JDK 1.1)
  • VisualAge for Java Professional for OS/2 and for Windows
  • VisualAge for Java Enterprise for OS/2 and for Windows
• Jan 1998 - Version 1.0.1
  • VisualAge for Java Professional for OS/2 and for Windows
  • VisualAge for Java Enterprise for OS/2 and for Windows
• Jun 1998
  • VisualAge for Java e-business Edition for Windows 95 and Windows NT
• Aug-Oct 1998 - Version 2.0 (JDK 1.1.6 and Swing 1.0.2)
  • VisualAge for Java, Professional Edition for OS/2 and for Windows
  • VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition for OS/2 and for Windows
  • VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition for AIX
• Nov 1999 - Version 3.0 (JDK 1.1.7 and Swing 1.0.3)
  • VisualAge for Java, Professional Edition for OS/2 and for Windows
  • VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition for OS/2 and for Windows
  • VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition for AIX
  • VisualAge for Java for Linux
• Aug 2000 - Version 3.5 (JDK 1.2.2 and Swing 1.1)
  • VisualAge for Java, Professional Edition
  • VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition
• Jul/Aug 2001 - Version 4.0
  • VisualAge for Java, Professional Edition
  • VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition

• 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• Latest Microsoft Windows version: IBM VisualAge for Java 4.0 withdrawn in March 2003

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