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From: Chad Bremmon <chad.bremmon@comm.hq.af.mil>
Subject: Ada Foundation Classes
Date: 1996/07/30
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The WAdaS conference is over. . .  I can try to get 
back to work now. . .  or play as it may be. 

I would like to get started on some work with 
Portable Ada Foundation Classes.  If any of you 
have looked at the WWW site, you know it hasn't 
been updated for a while.  

Here is what I request from the Ada community.

1.  What do you need from foundation classes.  
Consider the microsoft foundation classes.  But, 
consider that they need to be portable.  Consider 
the Java API's.  What if they were implemented on 
every platform.  Consider "automatic" object 
distribution.  Consider having CORBA written into 
the language.  With a specification in the front 
that would allow the implementation to change over 
time.  

What I'm asking is:  If you were given Ada 
foundation classes today, what would your 
requirements be?  Please be as specific as 
possible.  Please reply to bremmon@acm.org.

2.  Who wants to help?  I know I've had volunteers 
in the past.  Please notify me again if you 
volunteered.  

3.  Is it worthy of a working group?  This is a 
question for SIGada.  Similar to the annexes, we 
could separate the classes as it made sense. 

Please let me know,
Chad (bremmon@acm.org)