6 Pharo Tools

Here is a List of the current tools mantained and used by the Pharoers

Developer tools

• Autotest: automatically runs unit tests as you write code
• Automatic Method Categorizer
• Class Use Discovery: discover the classes that were used for a particular time duration or block
• New Inspector
• Nile
• OCompletion
• OmniBrowser
• Refactoring Browser
• Script Manager
• Shout

Web development

• Pier: content management system that is light, flexible and free
• Seaside: web application framework

Application Development frameworks

• Magritte: fully dynamic meta-description framework
• Mondrian: an agile visualization engine. It enables to quickly and flexibly render any kind of data.
• ProfStef: framework for creating and playing interactive tutorials
• HelpSystem: create documentation in-image

SCM

• Monticello
• Gofer
• Metacello
• Metacello Browser
• Pharogenesis

Monitoring & Analisys tools

• Memory Monitor: Graphical tool to visualize the memory activity. Very close to the activity monitor present in most operating systems.
• Moose: extensive platform for software and data analysis.
• Spy: a flexible and open framework for designing and implementing program monitor. Spy enables easy-to-realize analysis.

Communication tools

• RemoteFrameBuffer(RFB): client and server Smalltalk implementation of the VNC protocol
• FFI: Foreign Function Interface

Persistence tools

Relational Databases

• Postgres Driver: Postgress Version 2 driver
• SqueakDBX: OpenDBX plugin which will allow users to perform relational database operations (DDL, DML and SQL) through an open source library.

Relational Databases - ORMs:

• Glorp: Generic Lightweight Object-Relational Persistence
• SqueakSave: object-relational (O/R) mapping framework

Object Oriented Databases:

• Goods: An object oriented database
• Magma: An object oriented database
• SandstoneDB: Simple object database that uses SmartRefStreams to serialize clusters of objects to disk

Alternative Persistence tools:

• SPrevayler: prevalence is based on the idea that all data is kept in RAM
• CouchDB: Document-oriented database.
• TokyoTyrant: Binding for TokyoTyrant, a single machine key/value store.
• Cassandra: Ways to access a Cassandra database.
• Riak: Interface to Basho Riak's REST API

Serializers

• SIXX: Smalltalk Instance eXchange in XML.
• Fuel: a fast binary object graph serializer.

UI and 3D

• 3D Graphics and OpenGL

Misc

• XML Support
• Logging Tools