From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!srcsip!gumby!tking From: tking@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Tim King) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Object-Oriented DBMSs and Ada Applications Message-ID: <29164@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 25 Aug 89 19:03:38 GMT References: <560@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM In-reply-to: eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu's message of 24 Aug 89 13:57:08 GMT List-Id: In article <560@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> eberard@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Edward Berard) writes: > I would strongly suggest that members of the Ada community become > involved with OODBMS vendors, research, and standardization efforts. There is a (relatively) new standards group that interested parties should consider. I'm not sure of this group's *exact* lineage/title/affiliations, but I believe it's something like: "The Object-Oriented Database Task Group of the ASC X3/SPARC Database Systems Study Group". The three stated objectives of this group (taken from a draft Plan and Organization document) are: 1) To establish a working definition for the term "Object-Oriented Database". 2) To establish the relationship between object-oriented database technology and object-oriented methods and technology from other fields, including programming languages, user interface methodologies, and information modeling methodologies. 3) To establish a framework for future data management standards activities, both extensions to ongoing SQL and IRDS development, and related future standards. If you're interested, contact: Tim Andrews Ontologic, Inc. 47 Manning Road Billerica, MA 01821 or Elizabeth Fong NIST Bldg. 225, Room A266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 > If some of you are already involved, and it doesn't violate company > policy, it might be very worthwhile to publicize your efforts. [Of > course, I assume that the Software Engineering Institute is already > doing something with OODBMSs.] Over the past three years, we (at Honeywell SRC) have been developing a system called "Gaia". Gaia is an object-oriented framework for integrating engineering tools and data into comprehensive development enviroments. It is implemented entirely in Ada. One of Gaia's major components is an object management system to which we provide an extensible, OO, Ada interface. If anyone is interested, I have some outdated papers we've published. I'd also be glad to give more current details via email. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim King | Honeywell Systems & Research Center | Are we having fun yet? Mpls, MN 55418 |