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Subject: Re: Newbie Needs Ada Advice
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:27 -0700, ezkcdude wrote:

> I am not really concerned with looks. Most important are 1)
> functionality 2) performance and 3) ease of programming. Java really
> seems to have the upper hand in #3. Is this not the case?

You can write a graphical front end easily using a toolset of your
choice and have the graphical front end talk to the Ada backend
using like RPC, Corba, or just simple pipes; basically
any one of the commonly used protocol styles should work. 

Maybe there is additional benefit in defining a simple
command language for controlling the microscope; the graphical
front end will send the commands, the control back end (Ada)
interprets the commands, and reports status information in
return.