From: jim_snead <basswoodNObaSPAM@my-deja.com.invalid>
Subject: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/11/26
Date: 1999-11-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com> (raw)
I have been studying the Rational Apex product
as an Ada 95 and Java development environment.
Apex has an unusual feature called "subsystems"
which to me seems quite useless.
Apparently the notion is that you can place related
pieces of software into a subsystem, which is a
directory structure with strict naming conventions
(ends with a *.ss which nests other directories).
Other developers can place their own software into
another subsystem as a library. The "subsystem"
seems to be a legacy organizing feature from
archaic software practices.
For any practical development in Java or Ada 95,
this notion seems particularly baroque and
antiquated. With Java, the package namespace is the
organizing feature. Even though Rational sells an
Apex for Java, it is beyond me how subsystems would
even begin to work with Java. I guess that one
could put all of an organization's Java source libraries
into a single subsystem. But then what is the point
of a subsystem? In the same way, I believe that Ada
package hierarchies are sufficient to avoid the
need for multiple subsystems.
Why would anyone consider paying money for Apes
when it does not pay any attention to common
Java or Ada 95 deployment philosophies? Or am I
missing something? (I do not care at all about
C or Ada 83).
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1999-11-26 0:00 jim_snead [this message]
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? Martin Dowie
1999-11-28 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-28 0:00 ` mike_zebrowski
1999-11-28 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-29 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-30 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-03 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-29 0:00 ` reason67
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` reason67
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-12-01 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Mark Hertel
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-12-01 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-02 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David W. Glessner
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1999-11-26 0:00 Tom_Hargraves
[not found] ` <01bf3857$22ca59a0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Ed Falis
[not found] ` <01bf38cc$04d205e0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-27 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-11-26 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-11-26 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-12-12 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Henrik Delin
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