From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,39e272d357c68416 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Andreas Winckler Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: <3844D7DB.BBE53FD9@gmx.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555201085 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-support@xlink.net X-Trace: kilbeggan.xlink.net 944035910 24782 194.121.221.60 (1 Dec 1999 08:11:50 GMT) Organization: - Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Dec 1999 08:11:50 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-01T08:11:50+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Winckler http://www.talknet.de/~andreas.winckler/ ICQ# : 28867366 "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow"