This tutorial gives you a broad look at what you can do with VisualAge Generator. After completing this tutorial, you will have built and tested a small sample program that enables a user to search a customer database using the customer number.
Before you can perform the steps in this tutorial, you must have VisualAge Generator installed and the appropriate features loaded. You must also have access to an installed IBM relational database like DB2 UDB. Some prerequisite knowledge of the IBM relational databases is required.
Before you start, do the following:
See Appendix A, Installing samples for VisualAge Generator Developer on Smalltalk for instructions on installing the SAMPLE database.
This tutorial is intended to help you get started quickly with VisualAge Generator, and therefore covers only a small set of the tasks you can do. After you complete this tutorial, experiment and refer to the product documentation to learn more about what VisualAge Generator can do for you.
Note: | If you have installed VisualAge Generator Developer on Java, refer to "Creating a project and a package". |