Java to Ada...

[David Emery <demery@cox.rr.com>]

...  Last I heard, the author was working on an
> option to produce Ada source files from the class files.

Karl Nyberg and I did a paper on this for Ada Europe a couple
of years ago.  There's one really significant problem with 
generating Ada package specs from  class files, and that is 
that the parameter names are missing.

Otherwise, most of what you'd want to know about a class can
be figured out from the class file, which is kind of neat.

By the way, the absence of named parameter notation is #2 on my
list of big mistakes in the Java language.  #1 is the lack of 
separation of spec and body.  

         dave