Ada News Brief

[Becca Norton <nortonb@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>]

Ada News Brief
Week Ending: September 20, 1996

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MANAGING RUNTIME FAULTS
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Richard Riehle discusses runtime faults and Ada's exception 
handling capabilities in his latest article for the Ada 
column in Journal of Object-Oriented Programming. Riehle 
offers some background information on exception handling as 
part of a language design and uses Ada to provide examples 
and exercises on implementing exception handling. Riehle 
also discusses the importance and use of package Ada as part 
of, what he considers, one of the most significant Ada 95 
extensions. 

SOURCE:
Riehle, Richard. "Managing runtime faults," Journal of 
	Object-Oriented Programming. September 1996: 73-77.

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Ada 95 BOOKS
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The Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (JOOP) has 
recently published its annual object technology book listing 
... a great source for the latest in object-oriented 
programming. Keep in mind, however, that though the Ada 
object technology book listing is fairly comprehensive, it 
is not a complete list of all the new Ada 95 books. For a 
complete list of Ada books, look under Education/Training in  
the AdaIC's web site (http://sw-eng.falls-
church.va.us/AdaIC/ed-train).

SOURCE:
"The OT Book Listing," Journal of Object-Oriented 
	Programming. September 1996. 

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ORDERING THE DOD ACQUISITION DESKBOOK
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Information on the availability of the Defense Department's 
new Defense Acquisition Deskbook on CD-Rom was provided in 
the last Ada News Brief. Below is additional information 
(provided as a follow-up to the original Federal Computer 
Week article) on how to obtain the Deskbook on CD-Rom. 

All orders should specify ID Code (Desk); the product title, 
Defense Acquisition Deskbook on CD-Rom; and include payment. 
  By mail, customers should write to: Superintendent of 
Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. 
Payment may be made by check payable to Superintendent of 
Documents or charged to Visa, MasterCard or GPO deposit 
account.
  To order by phone, customers may call (202) 512-1800. To 
order by fax, call (202) 512-2250. Payment may be made by 
Visa, MasterCard or GPO deposit account.
  Another purchasing option is through one of 24 U.S. 
government bookstores located around the country.

Call Kathryn McConnell at (202) 512-1710 or Michael Bright 
at (202) 512-0108 for further questions about purchasing the 
CD-Rom.

SOURCE:
Letter from Wayne P. Kelley, Superintendent of Documents, 
Government Printing Office. Federal Computer Week, September 
2, 1996.

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