From: Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/12/01
Date: 1999-12-01T08:11:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3844D7DB.BBE53FD9@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com
jim_snead wrote:
>
> I have been studying the Rational Apex product
> as an Ada 95 and Java development environment.
> Apex has an unusual feature called "subsystems"
> which to me seems quite useless.
Recently I made an evaluation whether to make further use of Apex or
other compilers. We have Apex already in use as well as other tools.
Subsystems might be useful for big projects even as they do not really
map to the Rose/UML concepts. But in my opinion Apex suffers much more
from other things:
- poor user interface (no syntax highlighting for example)
- too big, too complicatet for small projects
- it does not really work together well with external tools, CM-tools
other than ClearCase for example
- way too expensive, which gets worse through Rational's licence policy
(one_man_one_licence)
A interesting feature of Apex is the re-compile on statement level, but
I found out that this only compensates that Apex compiles very slow. A
good feature is that you can choose the compiler model which allows to
use code for VADS without any further efforts.
After all we decided that Apex does not fit to our small and mid-size
projects and is much too expensive for us. Besides that we have already
a CM in use which does not really fit together with Apex. Unfortunately
there is no flexible and cheap "Apex-light" which I'd like to see from
Rational.
Greetings,
AW
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-26 0:00 Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? jim_snead
1999-11-28 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-28 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-28 0:00 ` mike_zebrowski
1999-11-28 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-29 0:00 ` reason67
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` reason67
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-29 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-29 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-30 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-12-03 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-29 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
1999-12-01 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Mark Hertel
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-11-30 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler [this message]
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David W. Glessner
1999-12-01 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-02 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
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1999-11-26 0:00 Tom_Hargraves
[not found] ` <01bf3857$22ca59a0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Ed Falis
[not found] ` <01bf38cc$04d205e0$022a6282@dieppe>
1999-11-27 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-18 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-11-26 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-26 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-11-26 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-12-12 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-11-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Henrik Delin
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