SMT Training

Hands-on course on SMT (Smalltalk Migration Technology) software covering the entire life cycle of Smalltalk Application Migration.

Knowledge of and experience with at least one Smalltalk platform.

A sample application developed in Visual Smalltalk Enterprise, VisualWorks or Object Studio will be migrated to VisualAge for Smalltalk. The course will cover the following topics:

1. Application export facilities from all source platforms
2. Assessment of the migration complexity and project preparation and setup
3. Namespace Migration
4. Migration Model Browser, inspection and editing tools
5. Knowledge bases (UI Class and Features, Source-code Rewrite Rules, Name Transformations for superclasses and extended classes)
6. Operation Log capturing the entire migration effort and full replay capabilities
7. Diagnostics sub-system and automatic problem resolution
8. Migration of UI (Font Analysis, Pre-compilation/Post-compilation Layout Testing)
9. Compilation dependency analysis
10. Comprehensive prerequisite analysis and resolution
11. Comprehensive reference analysis and browsing
12. Powerful syntactic source-code Search/Replace Engine
13. SMT runtime debugging support