[Tech] Disponibile REALbasic 5.5 per Win, Mac e... Linux!

Real Software ha rilasciato la versione 5.5 del suo ambiente di sviluppo cross-platform, ora disponibile per tutti i principali sistemi operativi per PC:

With the addition of a Linux compiler, REALbasic developers working on Mac or Windows platforms can build applications that run on Red Hat Enterprise and SuSE Linux distributions, as well as other Linux distributions that have the GTK+ 2.0 and CUPS libraries. The release marks the fulfillment of a promise that REAL Software made last summer, when it first announced that it would support Linux in REALbasic 5.5.



What's more, REALbasic extends its support for applications developed to use Web services by adding support for Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).



REALbasic is a popular solution for IT departments and small developers to create software that works hand-in-hand with Microsoft's Office application suite, and compatibility with Office has been improved in this release.



Up until now, REALbasic applications interacting with Office have depended on the use of plug-ins that have created a lot of operational overhead, according to Perlman. Now, the syntax used to create REALbasic applications is nearly identical -- about 98 percent -- to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), without any plug-ins required

Fonte: MacCentral