Re: Distributed Ada (Annex E)

[David Marceau <davidmarceau@sympatico.ca>]

Joe Simon wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been working for many years on implementing distributed systems
> for various uses.
> Every one of them has had specialized data communications schemes worked
> out for them.
> I was just reading a paper on distributed systems utilizing Ada 95 and
> Annex E, it said that the Ada distributed processing model made creating
> distributed systems in Ada "Painless".
> 
> I have Ada 95 and would like to evaluate for myself how "painless" it
> is. When i get on the net
> to search for information, I find references to software, such as
> "Glade" from A.C.T, or "Adept" from Texas A & M. However, I can't seem
> to find any literature that provides an "Ada distributed Systems for the
> cluless". Is all I need to put together a small distributed system test
> (the equivalent to "Hello World", but displayed on another node) is
> GNAT, or do I need one of these other packages ?
> 
> thanks for your help
> Joe Simon
Please also check out the Ada Web Server(aws) sources and its
documentation section 3.6 Communication.
It is certainly worthwhile since you might even find it to be simpler to
use than GLADE :)

http://libre.act-europe.fr/aws/ 

Cheers,
David Marceau