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From: ajenkins.notonyournelly.@nildram.co.uk (Alan Jenkins)
Subject: Re: Ada -> IDL (this is not a typo!)
Date: 1998/12/03
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It's a longshot, but Rational Rose provides a reverse engineering mechanism - 
this will take your Ada and reverse engineer it as a UML Model. From their. 
you can use Rose to generate the IDL from the reverse engineered model.

A bit of a long way round I guess.

Alan.

In article <366543C6.3E232C33@lmco.com>, "Marc A. Criley" 
<marc.a.criley@lmco.com> wrote:
>While the CORBA/Ada vendors provide IDL compilers to
>generate Ada 95 from the IDL, is there a "decompiler"
>that does the reverse?
>
>Given a set of type declarations in a package (and the
>packages that are depended upon) that are used for
>external interfacing, is there a tool out there
>that will generate corresponding IDL?
>
>"I speak not for my employer"
>