Chicory Information

ChicoryTM is an Integrated Software Engineering Environment that aims to support the entire software application development lifecycle. The software application development cycle not only encompasses the traditional software lifecycle comprising of requirements elicitation, specification, analysis and design, coding (which includes tools for visual debugging, cross-referencing tools, editors, object browsers, profilers, static analyzers, light-weight program databases and other tools), automatic test generation, maintainence and reengineering support. In addition facilities s needed for software project management (such as configuration control, common project visibility, group conferencing tools and team-wide information sharing) will be seamlessly integrated thereby facilitating concurrent engineering of software artifacts. Chicory is a language-based (in this case the specific language being Java) environment, which means the various tools that constituite the Chicory environment are Java aware. For example, the Chicory editor will be aware of the Java language syntax, the various packages, object hierarchies and other related information , and the Chicory object modeller will know about classes, visibility rules, inheritance conventions and such of the Java language. Chicory supports Visual Application Development Environment for creating Client-Server Java applications Rapidly. It is a tool to enhance programmer productivity by insulating the application developer from unnecessary programming details. Chicory automatically generates extremely tight Java code using sophisticated code-generation algorithms. The design philosophy behind Chicory is to support multi-paradigm programming using components and component frameworks. It not only supports visual programming metaphors to assemble applications using components, but also provides frameworks and their application programming interfaces(API) for the application programmers to customize the framewwork to suit theirapplication. Chicory currently supports ...