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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,75a45d2df2220fbf,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-01 18:38:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BE1F8F5.67180170@earthlink.net> From: "Marc A. Criley" Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: VADS packages on Rational Apex 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 02:38:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.122.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1004668710 158.252.122.199 (Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:38:30 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:38:30 PST X-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:34:31 PST (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15606 Date: 2001-11-02T02:38:30+00:00 List-Id: I'm going to be working with porting some software compiled with VADS Ada to Apex shortly and I was wondering about the quality of, and support for, the VADS packages that Rational provided to ease the transition. Are these packages, such as V_Mailboxes, fully supported? Or are they a stopgap measure that Apex is trying to wean developers away from? Certainly reengineering is often the preferred solution, but time, budget, and COTS doesn't always allow for that. Any experience and advice would be most welcome. BTW, I tried to get info about this from the Rational web pages on upgrading from VADS to Apex, but discovered that one apparently must already be a VADS customer to even _see_ the information on how one goes about migrating from one to the other. Jeeze... Marc A. Criley Senior Staff Engineer Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com