Ada NEWS: Week Ending 02 Sep 94

Ada NEWS: Week Ending 02 Sep 94

[Ada Information Clearinghose]

*****************************************************************
       1 MILLION LINES OF Ada CODE DELIVERED FOR SIDPERS-3
*****************************************************************
DATELINE: September 2, 1994

The Pentagon's Major Automated Information Systems Review Committee
will decide next month whether to approve full deployment of the
Army's standard personnel management system, the Standard
Installation/Division Personnel System - Version 3 (SIDPERS-3). 
Statistica, Inc. of Rockville, MD has been developing the system
since winning a $52 million contract in April 1994 and has
delivered one million lines of Ada code for SIDPERS-3 on budget and
on time by reusing code.  Jack Forgy, Statistica's SIDPERS-3
program director, observed that reuse is much easier in Ada and
that discipline and rigor are almost built into the language.

The Army's Software Development Center - Washington is now
responsible for SIDPERS-3 support as the Army fields the software
on 486s purchased through the service's Small Multiuser Computer
contract.  Personnel offices will use PCs networked with 486
servers, which will run the system and the XDB database management
system from Computer Associates International, Inc.

[Source:  Endoso, Joyce.  "Pentagon Panel to Decide on SIDPERS
Deployment," Government Computer News.  August 1994, Vol. 13, No.
19.]

*****************************************************************
  NEW DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTS Ada9X OBJECT ORIENTATION
*****************************************************************
DATELINE:  September 2, 1994

Alsys, Inc. this month released the ObjectAda development
environment, which has object-oriented extensions based on the
soon-to-be-approved Ada 9X language revision.  Alsys spokesman Pat
Michalowski reports that ObjectAda is a full development
environment with compiler, debugger, editor, and library
management, though no one has a full 9X implementation yet.

ObjectAda maintains validated Ada 83 features while adding 9X
features such as object encapsulation, abstraction for modeling
real-world objects, inheritance and polymorphism for reusability,
and dynamic binding at run time.

For more information, contact Pat Michalowski of Alsys at (619)
457-2700.

[Source:  Government Computer News.  August 1994, Vol.13, No. 19]

*****************************************************************
    FINAL YEAR OF PROGRAM FOR DELIVERY OF DACS 94 TECHNOLOGY
*****************************************************************
DATELINE:  September 2, 1994

DDC-I is in the final year of its three year program for the
delivery of DDC-I Ada 94 Compiler System (DACS 94) technology.

The earliest contracted delivery is for a SPARC hosted cross
compiler targeting a DECStation/ULTRIX (MIPS R3000).  The company
is prepared for 1995 deliveries of a DACS 94 VAX or SPARC hosted
cross compiler and symbolic debugging, support for the additional
remaining annexes (numerics, distributed systems, ...) and a
Graphical Interface User.

For more information, contact DDC-I, Inc. at 410 North 44th Street,
Pheonix, AZ 85008;  Phone: (602)275-7152;  FAX: (602)275-7502;  E-
mail:  sale%ddciiphx@uunet.uu.net .