Ada tasking question.

[whiting_ms@corning.com (whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting))]

I'm just learning Ada and am completely unfamiliar with any implementation
details of various Ada compilers/run-time environments.  I'm using ObjectAda
V7.0 under Windows NT 3.51.

My novice question is:  Is it possible to query a running system to determine
what Ada tasks are available on the system, what their current execution state
is, and what public methods each has?  Something akin to the TAS or ATL command
on RSX (I know I'm dating my skills here) or maybe the VMS SHOW SYSTEM command.
I've quickly reviewed the Rationale document and the ARM, but it is not
obvious if this is possible or how one might approach the problem.  There was a
reference to a Task Control Block, but it wasn't clear to me if that is a user
defined data structure or part of some "run time" component of Ada.

I'd like to write a Windows/Ada task that could be executed and then used to
"browse" a system to see what tasks are there.  Then I would like to be able to
"manually" issue commands (send messages, invoke methods, whatever the correct
OO terminology is!) to these tasks much as another task would do in a "real"
multitasking environment.  

Any suggestions or document references will be appreciated and no I'm not a
student!  Well, I'm a student in that I'm learning something new, but I'm not a
"formal" student trying to get help with a class assignment.

TIA,
Matt

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