[comp.software-eng] PCTE

drw@nevanlinna.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) (03/24/91)

I'm looking for references and/or implementations of PCTE, the
"Portable Common Tools Environment".  Does anyone have any information
on it?

Thanks,

Dale

saxena@motcid.UUCP (Garurank P. Saxena) (03/26/91)

drw@nevanlinna.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:

>I'm looking for references and/or implementations of PCTE, the
>"Portable Common Tools Environment".  Does anyone have any information
>on it?

There is one commercial implementation of PCTE specifications 1.5 by
a French Company called GIE Emeraude. For more information on their
product which (not surprisingly) is called Emeraude (I think current
version is V 12), contact their Sales Manager Dominique Soufflet
at the address below:

	Direction Commerciale
	38, Bd Henri Sellier
	92154 SURESNES CEDEX
	FRANCE
	Tel: 33 1 45 06 50 34
	fax: 33 1 42 04 04 96

To the best of my knowledge, the Emeraude product is the *only*
commercial PCTE implementation. There have been other PCTE proto-
types implemented by Olivetti etc but these have never been 
sold as commercial products.

There is some further work going on to enhance and evolve PCTE
towards an ECMA/PCTE version. There is also an EAST project 
in Europe which is building a full Software Engineering Environment
around PCTE.

Hope this helps

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jacob@latcs1.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski) (03/28/91)

>I'm looking for references and/or implementations of PCTE, the
>"Portable Common Tools Environment".  Does anyone have any information
>on it?

According to the Emeraude blursheet (distributed at the last Toulouse'90
exhibition and conference - SE & Applications) :-

	"[...] A list of CASE tools running in the PCTE environment is
	established by the PCTE Promotion Group (PPG) and can be obtained by
	contacting PPG or GIE Emeraude.

	PPG members are: Bull, CEC DG XIII, Digital, HP, Generics Software,
	GIE Emeraude, IPSYS Software, SFGL, STC & SYSECA. [...]"

Emaraude product Emeraude V12 is available on or being ported into
Sun3, HP9000, IBM RS/6000, Dec station 5000, Bull DPX/2, and provides :-

o	Libraries for C programming (PCTE 1.5 bindings, version management,
	metabase, dilogue management and data query utilities);

o	Utilities (network DB admin, graph archiving, data modeling and SDS
	management using a metabase, object management and database
	navigation, composite objects version management);

o	Unix derived utilities (encapsulation method with source code,
	"Free Software Foundation" derived utilities).

I am not aware of another implementation of PCTE although the exhibitors
guide has a reference to couple of other companies that "participated" in
the standard definition and are "currently working" on PCTE products, these
are Mark V Systems, Logiqual, and Softpen.

Jacob L. Cybulski

Amdahl Australian Intelligent Tools Programme
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Vic 3083, Australia

Phone: +613 479 1270
Fax:   +613 470 4915
Telex: AA 33143
EMail: jacob@latcs1.oz.au