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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Middleware options for Ada and visual C++ integration
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:54:11 +0200
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:29:53 -0700 (PDT), leandrohbatista wrote:

> But porting the HMI do Ada it's not a choice yet. 

We (cbb software GmbH) have a commercial middleware for distributed process
automation and control. It has Ada, C++ and other interfaces.

http://www.cbb-software.com/technicalinformation/labmapmiddlewareautomation/index.html

> In fact, I'd like to setup a COM server in my Ada simulation and run the
> HMI in another PC for example using TCP/IP.

Yes, this is a common case. Usually our customers have HMI designed in
"strange ways", much worse than C++, e.g. VisualBasic, LabView, DiaDem etc.
We leave it be, replacing the data acquisition/exchange layer with our
middleware.
 
> So, I'm looking for a middleware that could interface Ada and C++.

You can do that, however its not very usual that the components communicate
directly with each other. More frequently you would have something like
model-view-controller, which is rather "vertical communication"
(application to hardware) than "horizontal" (application to application)
one. In effect applications do interact, but indirectly like in the MVC.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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