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From: jim_snead <basswoodNObaSPAM@my-deja.com.invalid>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/11/30
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In article <820p6p$hb9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, reason67@my-deja.com wrote:
> Brief history of Rational Software. In the beginning there was
Rational,
> they made Rational R1000's which were a hardware/software Ada 83
> development system. They had subsystems and views. R1000's were
> dogs.
>They were slow and ineffeciant and broke often, but besides that here
> pretty good development platforms. Rational bought Verdix and
> became
> Rational Software. Using the VADS compiler, they incorperated alot
> of their R1000 environment into the compiler, thus decoupling it from
> the
> Rational Hardware. Apex was born. Apex is an IDE, Summit is an add
> on to
> that IDE. ClearCase is a CM product. It can be used with or without
> Apex.  So "the way to go" depends on what you are looking for. If
> you want an IDE, ClearCase, SoDA, or Rose are not the way to go :)

Piecing the tools together, I gather Apex is the back-end which uses
command line arguments such as "apex check_in <file>".
This then updates a RCS repository. Then they use emacs to
act as the default user interface (IDE) which enables
us to conveniently pass on the command line arguments to Apex.

Thanks for the insight. I have a pretty good idea of how
to proceed.

> I hope this answers your original question:
> > Why would anyone consider paying money for Apex when it does not
> pay
> > any attention to common Java or Ada 95 deployment philosophies?
> Or am
> > I missing something?
> ---
> Jeffrey S. Blatt
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> Before you buy.



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