Take Advantage of an Integrated Environment: Sun WorkShop

Sun WorkShop supplies an integrated programming environment with a full set of graphical tools to create and maintain your C++ and C applications.

In Figure 1-1, these tools are shown on the outside edge of the "Sun WorkShop" block. The tasks these tools perform are shown inside the circle. Employ these tools separately or in combination:

• A GUI-based debugger that lets you run your programs in a controlled manner and inspect the state of a stopped program

• An analyzer that measures, records, and helps you improve the performance of your application program

• A source browser that helps you understand the hierarchy of your code and lets you search the code base

• A file-merging tool that loads and displays two text files side-by-side for easy comparison

• A choice of three integrated editors (XEmacs, Emacs, vi) to write and alter code

• A make utility that aids code compilation by automating and distributing compilation of source files that have changed