From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,39e272d357c68416
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: jim_snead <basswoodNObaSPAM@my-deja.com.invalid>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/12/02
Message-ID: <000b8d9b.a5ff48ae@usw-ex0102-016.remarq.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 556041554
References: <11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com>
 <3844D7DB.BBE53FD9@gmx.de> <065f8722.4039674a@usw-ex0101-005.remarq.com>
 <3846CB5D.F1F77C21@hso.link.com>
X-Originating-Host: 207.58.29.249
X-Complaints-To: wrenabuse@remarq.com
X-Trace: WReNphoon3 944189188 10.0.2.16 (Thu, 02 Dec 1999 18:46:28 PST)
Organization: http://www.remarq.com: The World's Usenet/Discussions Start Here
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 18:46:28 PST
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
X-Wren-Trace: eGtOZmd+OXM4KX5wfTxlbX1Ydncjay53bylnZ28/IHszI34yK3knKzU+Ng==
Date: 1999-12-02T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <3846CB5D.F1F77C21@hso.link.com>, "Samuel T. Harris"
<sam_harris@hso.link.com> wrote:
> jim_snead wrote:
> > It sounds as if the Apex environment is locked into a single host
> > environment. So if you go to source code that was set up with a
> > particular operating system, you cannot modify anything
> > with another environment (say Solaris versus AIX). This is
> > extremely contrary to portable Ada or Java development. In many
> > instances one set of code could work for many different
> > environments.
> I believe you have mis-read Andreas Winckler. I think Andreas
> was refering to the RCI (Remote Compilation Integrator) facility.
> This facility has two part to it. The first is the customization
> of a very general Ada semantic compiler. This compiler does not
> produce any object code, but it does produce the semantic trees
> which drive the ASIS stuff as well as the smart editor. The second
> part of an RCI is the collection of scripts necessary to control
> the actual target compiler. RCI customizations provide extra
> "compiler models" as Andreas put it. This allows a project which
> has to support several compilers to use the single Apex development
> environment for all of them. This does not mean Apex only runs
> on a single environment.

Does this mean that you can set up a source code area that
is compilable to a platform-neutral format such as Java Byte Codes,
and then allow any host to do check-ins and check-outs and building
of semantic trees.  The RCI could then be used as a generic
compilation model to be used across many platforms.

Thanks, the RCI seems a bit complex but is probably the
missing piece that explains the Apex approach.



* Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network *
The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!