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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Explain EiffelStudio? What technology is used by EiffelStudio?


For Eiffel programming language, the development environment is provided by the Eiffelstudio. Both of these – the Eiffelstudio and Eiffel programming language have been developed by Eiffel software. Presently the version 7.1 has been released.

- Eiffelstudio consists a number of development tools namely:
  1. Compiler
  2. Interpreter
  3. Debugger
  4. Browser
  5. Metrics tool
  6. Profiler
  7. Diagram tool
- All these tools have been integrated and put under the single user interface of the Eiffelstudio. 
- This user interface in turn is based on several UI paradigms that are quite specific to one another. 
- There has been done effective browsing through ‘pick and drop’ thing. 
- Eiffelstudio supports a number of platforms including the following:
  1. Windows
  2. Linux
  3. Mac OS
  4. VMS and
  5. Solaris
- This Eiffel software product comes with a GPL license. 
- However, a number of other licenses are also available. 
- Eiffelstudio falls under the category of open source development. 
- The beta versions of the product of the following release are made available to the public at regular intervals. 
- The participation of the Eiffel community in the development of the product has been quite active. 
- A list of the open projects has even made available on the origo web site. 
- The host of this site is at ETH Zurich. 
- Along with the list, information regarding the discussion forums, basic source code for check out etc. also has been put up. 
- In the month of June 2012, the last version 7.1 was released and the successive beta releases were made available very soon after that.

Technology behind EiffelStudio

The compilation technology used by the Eiffelstudio called Melting Ice is unique to the Eiffel software and is their trademark.
- This technology integrates the interpretation process of the elements with the proper compilation process. 
- This technology offers a very fast turnaround time. 
- This also means that the time taken for recompilation depends up on the size of the change to be made and not on the overall size of the program. 
Such melted programs even though can be delivered readily but still a finalization step is considered important to be performed before the product is released.
- Finalization step involves a very highly optimized compilation process which takes a long time but the executable generated is optimized.
- The interpretation in eiffelstudio is carried out through what is called the byte code-oriented virtual machine. 
- Either .NET CIL or C is generated by the compiler. 

History of Eiffelstudio

- The roots of the Eiffelstudio date back to when the Eiffel was first implemented by interactive software engineering Inc. 
- The Eiffel software was preceded by the interactive software engineering Inc. -The first implementation took place in the year of 1986. 
-The current technology used in Eiffelstudio evolved from the earlier technology called the ‘Eiffel bench’ that saw its first use in the year of 1990. 
- It was used along with the version 3 of the Eiffel programming language. 
- In the year 2001, the name Eiffel bench was changed to what we know now, the ‘Eiffelstudio’. 
- This was also the year when the environment was developed to obtain compatibility with the windows and a number of other platforms. 
- Originally, it was only available for Unix platform.
- Since 2001, Eiffelstudio saw some major releases with some new features:
  1. Version 5.0 (july 2001): The first proper version. Saw integration of the eiffelcase tool with the eiffelbench as its diagram tool.
  2. Version 5.1 (December 2001): Support for .NET applications. Also called the eiffel#.
  3. Version 5.2 (November 2002): The debugging capabilities were extended, an improved mechanism for C++ and C was introduced, eiffelbuild, roundtripping abilities etc. were added.



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