This book is a comprehensive description of the most basic layers at the center of the VAST Platform (VA Smalltalk) “VA Smalltalk Basic,” and specifies APIs to communicate with the virtual machine underneath the image.

This book covers how VAST Platform implements inter-process communication (IPC). It describes several base components loaded into the shipped image such as compression, localization, Unicode an logging as well as commonly loaded features like cryptography, socket communications, LDAP and OLE.