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From: Joachim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schr=F6er?= <joachim.schroeer@dornier.eads.net>
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Subject: Re: Ada -> Java by Java disassemlers?
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:55:16 +0100
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Dr. Michael Paus wrote:

> Joachim Schr�er wrote:
> 
>>You mention an Ada95 -> Java compiler. Has anyone tried to disassamble
>>.class files compiled by an Ada95 to bytecode compiler like JGnat.
>>There are some disassemblers that convert .class files to .java files.
>>
> 
> Yes, I did but I failed. I took a class file produced by AdaMagic and tried
> to decompile it. It worked for a trivial hello world example but after I
> added a little bit more code the decompiler failed. It seems that the
> Ada compiler produced some legal bytecode which the decompiler could not
> translate into some legal piece of Java. I finally gave up on this issue.
> 
> Just for curiosity. For what kind of project do you need an Ada to Java
> compiler?
> 
> Michael
> 


First, as other people in this newsgroup I prefer Ada over Java.
The other reason: Our current project demands Java (J2EE) and we have a 
few hundred thousend loc of (not very nice) Ada83. I would prefer a 
transition to Ada95 and a parallel improvement of the code but we need 
an Ada95 to bytecode compiler.
(I did not ask for an Ada to Java source compiler, but this would be a 
nice thing).

	J. Schr�er