"Jean-Pierre Rosen" a �crit dans le message news: 9jh2cs$aon$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net... > True, but what I meant is that it is a feature of the JVM, not of the Java language. > If you compile Ada for the JVM (Ada-Magic, JGNAT), you'll get exactly the same binary compatibility. Does it work for GUI components ? If you develop an application with GtkAda for example, and use JGNAT, do you get something like what you would get with Swing and Java ?