Re: Ada95 and SOM/OpenDoc???

Re: Ada95 and SOM/OpenDoc???

[Jon S Anthony]

In article <4ldip4$j8t@newsbf02.news.aol.com> wmdbrad@aol.com (WMD Brad) writes:

>   The thought came to me the other day that Ada95 could be the absolute
> perfect language for doing SOM/OpenDoc parts and handlers under a
> multithreaded OS like IBM's OS/2 WARP.
> 
>   Does anyone here know of any projects to help integrate Ada95 and
> OpenDoc, or any sort of Ada95/OpenDoc/SOM Development kit?


SOM is an implmentation of the OMG's CORBA (well, more or less).  There
is an official OMG specification for the Ada/IDL mapping and there are
at least two implementations of this.  One is from OC Systems (now the
Ada95 folk for IBM gear).  This should satisfy your requirements.

/Jon
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Re: Ada95 and SOM/OpenDoc???

[Dale Pontius]

In article <JSA.96Apr23203338@organon.com>,
        jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) writes:
>
>SOM is an implmentation of the OMG's CORBA (well, more or less).  There
>is an official OMG specification for the Ada/IDL mapping and there are
>at least two implementations of this.  One is from OC Systems (now the
>Ada95 folk for IBM gear).  This should satisfy your requirements.
>
Where do you find these?

Thanks,
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)

Re: Ada95 and SOM/OpenDoc???

[G. Vincent Castellano]

OC Systems' FTP site is ftp://ocsystems.com/pub/

In that directory you will find:

idl_to_ada.ps   PostScript for the OMG Ada to IDL mapping
som-6000.ps     Information on the OCS SOM/Ada product
somartcl.ps.Z   An article detailing a practical example of SOM/Ada

See also:  http://ocsystems.com/powerada/som.html

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