Wolfram Workbench 2 Released for Mathematica Applications

Built on the Eclipse software platform, Workbench 2 combines Mathematica's ever-growing programming language and world-renowned computation, visualization, and modeling features with one of the world's leading integrated development environments (IDEs). It gives developers the luxury of working with any Eclipse-supported language, making Workbench one of the market's most efficient organizational tools.

"The ability to develop for different technologies, through all stages of the development cycle, within one application significantly increases productivity," said Adam Berry, senior developer of Workbench."By removing the need to change environments, Workbench allows you to focus on your development instead of on your tools."

Workbench lets developers code as they think, using Mathematica's multi-paradigm expression language in tandem with first-class tool support. Workbench helps minimize transition time from development through maintenance. Developers will achieve faster R&D and deployment with Workbench's top features, such as these:

• Source editor with syntax coloring, code folding, and error reporting
• Integrated debugging, profiling, and unit testing
• Mathematica pattern-based search, warnings, and refactoring
• Industry-standard version-control support
• Eclipse plugins for enhanced language support

Workbench was integral to the development of Wolfram|Alpha. The world's first computational knowledge engine, Wolfram|Alpha has millions of lines of code that must interact and work together, as well as many groups and team members working on the same code base. Workbench lets everyone involved quickly track down bugs and other problems and easily solve them. Features like version-control support let developers check out a project, work on it, do tests, and then check code back into the global repository.

The key role Workbench 2 played in the development of Wolfram|Alpha is further explained in a video: http://www.wolfram.com/screencasts/workbenchandwa

Workbench requires Mathematica 6 or higher, and is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It can also be used with gridMathematica, webMathematica, Mathematica for the Classroom, Mathematica for Students, and Mathematica Home Edition. It is for sale from the Wolfram web store and available as a free download to all Wolfram Research Premier Service customers: http://store.wolfram.com/workbench,    http://www.wolfram.com/premiersupport/workbench.cgi

Advanced training on Workbench is available from Wolfram Education Group, covering core Mathematica programming concepts including source code editing, debugging, and unit testing. A complete description of the course, including registration information, is online: http://www.wolfram.com/weg/courses/m235.html.

For more information about Wolfram Workbench 2, visit its product pages:  http://www.wolfram.com/workbench

About Wolfram Research, Inc.

Wolfram Research, Inc. is a powerhouse in technical innovation and pursues a long-term vision to develop the science, technology, and tools to make computation an ever-more-potent force in today's and tomorrow's world. The company is the developer of Mathematica, the world's most powerful global computation system, used by millions around the world, and Wolfram|Alpha, the widely used and continually growing computational knowledge engine released in May 2009. Wolfram Research also sponsors the world's largest free network of technical information websites, including MathWorld--the #1 website devoted to mathematics--and the Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

For more information, visit http://www.wolfram.com.

About Wolfram Alpha LLC

Wolfram Alpha LLC is a Wolfram Research company. Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. The company aims to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Wolfram|Alpha builds on the achievements of science, and other systematizations of knowledge, to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries. Wolfram|Alpha was created with Mathematica--itself the result of more than 20 years of development at Wolfram Research--and is being developed by a world-class team of experts led by Stephen Wolfram, a distinguished scientist, inventor, author, and business leader.

For more information, visit the Wolfram|Alpha website: http://www.wolframalpha.com

About Mathematica 7

Mathematica 7 accelerates the drive to integrate and automate functionality as core Mathematica capabilities, adding image processing, parallel high-performance computing (HPC), new on-demand curated data, and other recently developed computational innovations--in total over 500 new functions and 12 application areas. Mathematica 7 is available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, Mac OS X, Linux x86, Solaris UltraSPARC/x86, and compatible systems.

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See Also

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Mathematics Software - list of products and companies by TenLinks.com

Additional News

Feb 18 - Wolfram Workbench 2 Released for Mathematica Applications
Sep 16 - Wolfram Releases webMathematica 3
Mar 19 - Wolfram Releases gridMathematica 7
Feb 27 - Wolfram Offers Technical Consulting Service
Feb 6 - Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica Home Edition
Jan 16 - Wolfram Releases Mathematica Player Pro 7
Dec 10 - Wolfram Releases Free Mathematica Player 7
Nov 19 - Wolfram Releases Mathematica 7.0

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