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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <sam_harris@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java?
Date: 1999/12/02
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jim_snead wrote:
> 
> In article <3844D7DB.BBE53FD9@gmx.de>, Andreas Winckler
> <andreas.winckler@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It sounds as if the Apex environment is locked into a single host
> environment. So if you go to source code that was set up with a
> particular operating system, you cannot modify anything
> with another environment (say Solaris versus AIX). This is
> extremely contrary to portable Ada or Java development. In many
> instances one set of code could work for many different
> environments.
> 

I believe you have mis-read Andreas Winckler. I think Andreas
was refering to the RCI (Remote Compilation Integrator) facility.
This facility has two part to it. The first is the customization
of a very general Ada semantic compiler. This compiler does not
produce any object code, but it does produce the semantic trees
which drive the ASIS stuff as well as the smart editor. The second
part of an RCI is the collection of scripts necessary to control
the actual target compiler. RCI customizations provide extra
"compiler models" as Andreas put it. This allows a project which
has to support several compilers to use the single Apex development
environment for all of them. This does not mean Apex only runs
on a single environment.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Scientific and Technical Systems
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"