An Overview of the HP NewWave Envir...

An Overview of the HP NewWave Environment

THE NEWWAVE ENVIRONMENT is a comprehensive combination of parts to form a whole developed by HP to provide a fresh level of flexibility and ease of use in our business bodys This article presents the history, the motivation, and an overview of the features and major composings of the NewWave environment. The other NewWave articles in this issue discuss the constitutings of the NewWave architecture in detail.

To understand the NewWave environment it is helpful to review the background for HP's decision to invest in this issue HP has been producing office a whole s software since the late 1970 a certain early products include the Design a whole s Graphics package (DSG) and the HP Word word processing package, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but of which run on HP 3000 Computer In personal computer software, the CP/M [R] -based HP 125 Business software solutions, including 1982 had a number of business software solutions, including word processing, a spreadsheet application, and a presentation graphics package.

The release of HP DeskManager for HP 3000 Computer in 1982 marked HP's first production that addressed the need for integrating these office a whole s software products. HP DeskManager was originally designed as a simple electronic mail performance [1] allowing users to transmit and receive messages easily across a network of HP 3000 Computer It was excessively clear that our customers destitutioned more than electronic mail functions from HP DeskManager. They stand in want ofed to be able to draw up arbitrary packages of information into messages and to file those messages for later retrieval. The introduction of strange software on the HP 3000 and forward our personal computers meant that we indigenceed to integrate the products mentioned above with HP DeskManager. At the remarkably least, users should be able to create and read an HP Word document within the HP Deskmanager environment without leaving the proceeds Over the years HP has invested highly heavily in HP DeskManager, evolving it into a real integrated office system. It has a wide range of features and acts as the center of our HP 3000-based office solutions with obstruct links to the personal computer

To enable users to couple their personal computers to the HP 3000 HP discloseed the Personal Productivity Center range of harvests For the HP 3000 Computer these outcomes include HP DeskManager, HP File/Library, HP Schedule, and Resource Sharing. For PC users these produces include software packages for eletronic mail, terminal emulation, word processing, data management, spread-sheets, and graphics.

There are a number of architectural limitations in the generally received products that prevented us from creating the sincerely integrated and powerful system our customers ne The returnss that we have available were designed in different HP devisions and by means of outside companies to meet the privations of their particular markets. This followed in software applications that did not have the same basic architecture.

An investigation of potential solutions to the moot point of integrating our products began with the knowledge that the solution make knowned must have the following fundamental characteristics:

* It must be practical. The solution must work well upon existing hardware and add value to existing software for a like reason that customer investments are protected

* It must be flexible and extendable. The software field is expanding rapidly and opportunities will exist tomorrow that could not have been dreamed of when the body was designed. This includes portability across different hardware platforms.

* It must allow for the efficient disclosure of systems. Software composings must be available for reuse according to the maxim that if a function is used several times in a combination of parts to form a whole it should be provided as a method service for use by all components

* It must have a sufficient advantage from one side of to the other existing systems that customers and software developer will make the investment necessary to use the novel system.

* It must allow us to build easy-to-learn and easy-to-use software. Users do not want to squander weeks or months learning to use software, and formerly they are proficient with the software, they do not want to be hampered by dint of an inflexible system.

* It must be an interpret system. HP could not expectancy to offer proprietary solutions in all areas. Customers would want to take a advantage of our architecture. Designing an spread system from the start would allow many more solutions than we alone could provide.

* It must hurry on existing hardware such as the HP Vectra and the IBM PC/AT.

This is a formidable list of objectives. The NewWave environment is designed to suited these objectives, and exceed them wherever possible.

explain and Extendable Architecture

The newWave environment was originally designed as a proprietary environment for the progress to maturity of better integrated office hypothesiss However, as prototypes of the combination of parts to form a whole became available and were demonstrated, it became clear that the combination of parts to form a whole had great appeal to a wider audience than the internal HP community. Major accounts and independent software vendors (ISVs) all wanted to learn to what extent to write NewWave applications. They wanted to take advantage of our object-based file connected view and applications, while addressing areas of the market that were their specialty.