Re: Pro*Ada

[maysee@sd2.sews.wpafb.af.mil (ERIC E. MAYS)]

In article <sarge-1110942238230001@ohno.ppp.verdix.com>, sarge@Rational.Com (Matthew C. Sargent) writes:
|> In article <36v38v$hsg@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, wlawton@aol.com (WLawton) wrote:
|> 
|> > In article <1994Oct5.113638.26570@relay.acadiau.ca>,
|> > 841613t@dragon.acadiau.ca (Don Tyzuk) writes:
|> > 
|> > >Does anyone out there have any experience with Oracle's
|> > >Pro*Ada?  I'm not asking for tech support, just a straw
|> > >poll of who uses it and what their impressions are.
|> > >
|> > >Does it even really exist?  Readers at Oracle Corp.
|> > >are welcome to respond by e-mail or with literature.
|> > 
|> > I have used it, ergo, it does exist.  Essentially, Pro*Ada is a
|> >[snip]
|> > 
|> > 'nuf said...
|> > 
|> > Wayne R. Lawton
|> > various affiliations, my fingers typed this, they are on their own
|> 
|> I have a pretty good understanding of pro*ada. It is available for most of
|> the Ada compilers out there. It works, but like all pre-processors, you
|> lose some control of what is happening in your code. For example, after
|> pre-processing your code will have USE statements. Your code will also now
|> be two files. Both of these things can cause problems with project
|> standards and configuration control. There are also issues with how their
|> dynamic sql statements are implemented (raw addresses) that may make you
|> shiver, but they can be avoided by not using these features if they worry
|> you. 
|> 
|> There is also OCI (Oracle Callable Interface) in Ada if you want to go
|> with that interface.
|> 

Matthew,

    Have you tried using user-exits to call ada programs from sql*forms?

Thanks,

Eric