Development of a system, program, or application suite by a team of two or more programmers or application developers.

An attribute that an application developer has exposed to work with as though it were a stand-alone part.

A variable whose scope is limited to the Smalltalk method or block in which it is defined. A temporary variable takes an assigned value.

The smallest unit of execution within a process that is not identifiable outside of its parent process. A process consists of a collection of threads in various states.

In the Organizer and Composition Editor, the strip of icons along the top of the free-form surface. The tool bar contains tools to help construct composite parts. These tools are also available through pull-down menus of the windows.

In Dynamic Data Exchange, a logical grouping of data items within a named DDE server.

A loadable feature offering a navigational browser that enables the code for objects to be displayed based on their relationships to other objects.

In client/server transaction processing, a business activity or set of activities that transform a database from one state to another (for example, making an airline reservation or custom ordering an automobile).

The main controlling window in Smalltalk.