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Xcode is . Apple has released a beta version of Xcode 3 to developers who are testing the upcoming 10.5 "Leopard" release of the Mac OS X operating system. The main application of the suite is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), also named Xcode. The Xcode suite also includes most of Apple's developer documentation, and Interface Builder , an application used to construct graphical interfaces. The Xcode suite includes a modified version of as the Back-end for its Debugger . MAJOR FEATURES Among the highly touted features of the Xcode suite is the technology to distribute the building of source code over multiple computers. The original, now called ''Shared Workgroup Build'', uses the Bonjour Protocol and the free software Distcc . More recent versions of Xcode added a second system, called ''Dedicated Network Builds''. The systems have distinct advantages and disadvantages: Dedicated Network Builds scales better to larger configurations, but Shared Workgroup Build supports Bonjour's auto-discovery service. Due to modifications to GCC by Apple, Xcode can build Universal Binaries which allows software to run on both PowerPC and Intel -based ( X86 ) platforms. Furthermore the modified GCC can build 32- and 64-bit applications for both architectures. Xcode also includes Apple's WebObjects tools and frameworks for building Java web applications and web services (previously sold as a separate $699 product). In August 2006, Apple announced that DTrace , a dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems and released as part of OpenSolaris , would be integrated into Xcode as Xray . HISTORY See Also: History of Xcode The Xcode suite, like Mac OS X itself, had its roots in technology from NeXT . Prior to the October 24 2003 release of Mac OS X V10.3 , Apple referred to the suite of tools as Developer Tools. The Xcode IDE was developed from and superseded Apple's earlier IDE, Project Builder. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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