Fall AdaIC News available on Web site

Fall AdaIC News available on Web site

[John Walker]

The Fall 1996 issue of the AdaIC News is now available on the Ada
Information Clearinghouse's World Wide Web site:

http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/news/Newsletter/1996/fall/index.htm

Lead articles include:

*   the Ada Resource Association's move to adopt a set of interfaces
    that member companies will support;

*   the Ada-Java compiler assisted by the Ada Joint Program Office.

*   And this issue's "Letter from the AJPO" discusses transition
    steps in closing the AJPO.

(The AdaIC is expected to pick up some additional tasks related to
DISA as well as continuing active in the areas it currently
supports.)

A few of the other articles are:

*   text from the new DoD Regulation 5000.2 restating the requirement
    to use Ada;

*   a brief discussion of the WebAda compiler
    (http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/compilers/webada/);

*   a look at current activities of the ada software engineering
    education and training (ASEET) Team (http://pr.erau.edu/~bingue);
    and

*   AJPO-assisted Ada 95 activities at the Service academies;

On the reuse front, some of the articles cover:

*   the Army initiative towards a reuse trade association
    (http://www.smart-council.org);

*   the STARS Web site (http://www.asset.com/stars);

*   a look at the concepts of product-line software reuse from an
    automobile-industry perspective.

John Walker        walkerj@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us
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