These pages are the central repository of information about Eiffel and the products and technologies of Eiffel Software.

What's New

Version 7.0 of EiffelStudio includes EiffelRibbon, a library and tool for adding ribbon interface structures to EiffelVision 2 applications which are targeted to the Microsoft Windows platform. Also in Version 7.0 are performance and functional improvements to SCOOP.

About the Online Documentation

The Eiffel Software documentation is organized into virtual books. Each book covers an important aspect of the world of Eiffel.

• Guide -- Guide to Eiffel Information
• EiffelStudio -- The EiffelStudio Interactive Development Environment
• Solutions -- Eiffel Solutions, Technologies, and Class Libraries
• Platform specifics -- Specific support for particular platforms, e.g., Microsoft Windows
• Method and Language -- The Eiffel Method and Language
• Why Eiffel? -- Why Eiffel?
• Examples -- Contributor supported examples of Eiffel solutions to common programming problems
• Papers -- Technical and position papers relating to Eiffel and the engineering of high quality software
• Community -- Community Contributions
• Please check the documentation pages recently added, and also check the recent changes.

The Guide to Eiffel Information explains the content of each of the online documentation books. The Guide also directs you to other important sources of information external to the documentation books.

For example you will find these important resources listed in the Guide:

Presentations A great place to learn Eiffel basics quickly.

Learning Maps Knowledge about specific topics mapped graphically with resources.

Eiffel User Group The Eiffel Software community network.