Re: programming a web with ADA

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 18:27 -0700, Britt Snodgrass wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> >
> > There are some limitations as regards full Ada 95 language
> > support. The class files generated by JGNAT and AppletMagic
> > need backwards compatibility switches turned on when you
> > run them.

> I have never used either but I think I read that that neither of them
> support JVM versions newer than version 1.2 (i.e. JDK 1.2 or J2SE 1.2).

FWIW, here is an update as I've just got AppletMagic for Linux.
It seems a number of things have been fixed and added.

Running Ada->JVM programs is straightforward so far using
either JDK 1.5 or GCC's gij (the GNU interpreter for Java bytecode).
I.e.,

$ adajava hello.ada
$ java hello
Hello, World!
$

The new things include byte code injections for SofCheck's analysis tools.
So I guess you can use just Ada language properties for program analysis
where you would otherwise be using the new Java @annotations from the
Do-it-Yourself Java language straightening toolkit ;-)

Georg