The primary goal of the Single Point of Development (SPoD) approach is to provide a development interface that enables software engineers to develop Natural applications for any platform using only one integrated development environment (IDE) of choice: NaturalONE, or Natural for Windows which includes Natural Studio.
The essential features are:
Remote File Manipulation
You can manipulate (for example, move, copy) program objects,
regardless of location.
Remote Editing
You can retrieve Natural source files transparently from the target
environment, edit them at your workstation and then save them to the target
environment. The GUI supported dialogs of the editors provide significant
advantages over the character-based editors.
Remote Compiling
You initiate the compilation process from your workstation by issuing
commands to the target environment.
Remote Debugging
The debugger available with the IDE can be used to debug applications
which execute in a target environment that can be located on the same system or
in Natural remote environments.
Object Locking
When you access a remote development server, an object locking
mechanism prevents concurrent updates. Locking information is kept in the
development server file.
Output
Maintenance of character-based applications often involves testing
output to terminals. During debugging from the IDE, a terminal emulation window
or a window of the Natural Web I/O Interface appears automatically for that
purpose. This feature is also available when you are using a utility with a
character user interface.
Note:
Natural Development Server for Windows supports only the Natural Web
I/O Interface.
The Natural Web I/O Interface is able to display information which contains Unicode characters. The terminal emulation window is not Unicode-enabled. The window which will appear at your site depends on the parameters which have been set on the Natural development server.
