SGI has announced it has released to the open source community Jessie, a next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) framework that will simplify and accelerate the creation of Linux applications.
Jessie provides comprehensive debugging and performance analysis tools in an easy-to-understand, highly visual graphical user interface. The graphical interface eliminates the need for employing command-line tools, a process that is common in existing open source tools for Linux.
In addition, Jessie is capable of handling multiple executable commands simultaneously, allowing developers to see the impact and interrelationships of commands on each other. This capability allows developers to find and correct errors earlier in the development cycle.
Jessie has been written to focus on scalability, providing multi-process and multi-thread support for large applications. It is written in Java script, giving developers the broadest cross-platform support available, and it supports C, C++, Assembler, Fortran and other languages supported by gdb, the industry-standard Linux debugger.
Robert Dewar, president and CEO, Ada Core Technologies, announced that his company will adapt the Jessie technology for use with the widely used GNAT Professional Ada 95 technology.
"There are a number of visual debugger interfaces in use now, but Jessie is the first to seriously address the issues of large scale multi-processor applications, which is a critical need for large scale Ada applications."
Jessie is available for immediate download at SGI`s Open Source Portal (oss.sgi.com).
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