New Object-Oriented Development System Now Available for Windows

Tower Technology Announces TowerEiffel for Windows NT and Windows 95

AUSTIN, TX -- October 16, 1995 -- Tower Technology Corporation continues to
expand the range of platform support for the TowerEiffel object-oriented
development system by announcing its availability on both Windows NT and
Windows 95 this week at OOPSLA '95. Using TowerEiffel, developers can now
produce high quality platform independent software for Windows, Unix, OS/2
and NEXTSTEP. Consistent with Tower's focus on industrial strength Eiffel
development tools that excel in performance, openness and native platform
support, TowerEiffel for Windows provides a high performance Eiffel 3
compiler, interoperability with C/C++ and an integrated development
environment with a familiar Windows look and feel. Additionally, Tower has
packaged TowerEiffel specifically for the Windows market by bundling GUI
and other classes and offering the complete system at an attractive
introductory price of $325. TowerEiffel encourages engineering discipline
through a development framework that supports the seamless design,
implementation and maintenance of systems. This provides a foundation for
sustainable competitive advantage by companies who are dependent on
software based systems for differentiation. 

TowerEiffel is the most advanced Eiffel development system available for
Windows. The TowerEiffel system produces fast and efficient executables,
automatically performs systems dependency analysis and memory management,
supports precompiled static and dynamic libraries, provides run-time
controllable assertion checking and robust exception handling, supports
serialization and persistency, automatically generates documentation for
WinHelp, HTML, Ascii text and other formats, provides clear and precise
error messages and comes with over 300 reusable classes including a subset
of the popular TowerEiffel Booch Components. A unique feature of
TowerEiffel is support for direct interoperability between Eiffel, C and
C++. This allows developers to easily integrate with other C++ based
technology such as the Microsoft Foundation Classes. 

TowerEiffel for Windows includes an Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) that consists of a "Project Manager" for the management of projects
via Ace file selection and editing and a "Monitor" which allows developers
to observe the progress of various development operations. The TowerEiffel
Project Manager allows control of project building, application execution,
cluster locking and cleaning, and IDE settings. 

The heart of the Project Manager is a "Cluster / Class Browser" that
provides cascading panels to show either descendants or ancestors of any
given class. Using the "Class Inspector", developers can view the full or
partial signatures of a class including class header comments, features,
pre and post-conditions, and the full list of descendants or ancestors.
The IDE includes integrated hyper-linked help files which can be generated
directly from Eiffel source code, allowing an optional way to quickly and
easily browse code. Additionally, the TowerEiffel IDE can be used to
control the developer's program editor of choice. 

Bundled with TowerEiffel for Windows is the TowerEiffel GUI Kit, a full set
of GUI classes that support the creation of native Windows GUI components
such as Buttons, Menus, ScrollBars, Combo Boxes, Dialogs, Forms, Labels,
Lists, Images, and more directly from Eiffel programs. TowerEiffel GUI Kit
supports resource file specifications which are loaded under program
control at run-time. This allows the modification of GUI resources without
recompiling or relinking applications. Other classes bundled with
TowerEiffel provide basic capabilities required by most Windows
applications including ODBC interface support, simple persistency, object
serialization, basic data structures, a wide variety of basic data types
and more. The TowerEiffel kernel classes are compliant with the Vintage 95
Eiffel Library Standard announced earlier this year by NICE ( the
Non-profit International Consortium for Eiffel ). Additionally,
TowerEiffel comes with complete user documentation including a tutorial,
sample programs and on-line help. 

TowerEiffel for Windows can be used on either Windows NT version 3.5 or
Windows 95. The recommended hardware configuration is a 486 or greater
with 16MB of RAM and 75MB hard disk, although 8MB RAM and 50MB HD will
work. The system is delivered on four 3.5 inch diskettes. Backend C++
compilers which are supported by TowerEiffel include Microsoft Visual C++
and Symantec C++ 7.0. Future releases will support Borland, Watcom and
gcc. 

Tower is offering a 60-day risk-free price of $325 for introductory copies
of TowerEiffel for Windows. For commercial and corporate software
development purposes licenses are $995. Volume, site, and corporate
licenses are available along with support and maintenance programs.
Applications developed with TowerEiffel can be distributed royalty free.
Special university programs are available for educational use and
noncommercial research projects. 

Tower Technology Corporation is a leading international provider of Eiffel
based software engineering development tools and supporting services.
Tower specializes in object-oriented software development and its
utilization by corporate and commercial system developers to create
sustainable competitive advantage. 

Tower Technology Corp
1501 W. Loenig Lane
Austin, TX 78756
512-452-9455,  fax 512-452-1721
Email: tower@twr.com
 
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