Windows Development w/ Ada

Windows Development w/ Ada

[Bruce D. Bachus]

Greetings,

I have a request from an Army officer from Germany (United States Army 
Europe) who needs assistance.  We are in the process of getting all Army 
auotmators signed up to a listservice with the purpose of 
solving/discussing technical problems/issues.  Ada has been a recent 
topic of discussion.

I view this as a great opportunity to demonstrate the support network that
we (the Ada community) have.  I'm posting it here since it may have
applicability to others, and having been a reader for a few years, I know
there is a wealth of information available.  Bottom line is he is a user 
who is trying to make Ada a success...lets help...

Cheers,

LTC Bachus

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From: MAJ M Grasse <grassem@dcsei.worms.army.mil>
To: bachusb@seas.gwu.edu
Subject: Ada Info Needed

I am looking for any information folks might have on Ada compilers and/or
development environments and tools for developing Ada systems for
Windows.

My Directorate is responsible for Life Cycle Maintenance and post
deployment support for many of the USAREUR unique software systems.  We
are the victims of all the people who do software development in their
language of choice.  We are working to reduce and eliminate some of the
14+ different languages and database environments that we are saddled
with in our legacy systems (including Ada).  

I'm surprised that no one has commented on the database piece of the Ada
mandate.  As I recall, if your are developing a database system you must
use a 4GL and SQL compliant language.  Then you are to use Ada to bind
the programs as necessary.

Well, our dilemma is in developing for MS-Windows environments.  We have
not been able to locate development tools, compilers, libraries, to
develop Windows objects, controls, with Ada.  Our customers don't want
us to put character based interfaces on their PC's.  They want Windows,
GUI's and full Windows compatibility.  Finding Windows based 4GL
database languages/environments that are SQL compliant is easy.  We are
working to standardize on the MS family of database front ends and
servers.  WE are also going to experiment with Microsofts SNA server to
see if we can provide access via SQL to our mainframe data sets.

I would appreciate hearing form anyone who is developing Windows systems
and their experiences.  In addition if anyone can point me towards Ada
Windows tools, we sure look forward to checking them out.

MAJ Mark O. Grasse
Director, Automation Directorate
HQ 5th Signal Command/DCSEI
grassem@dcsei.worms.army.mil

Re: Windows Development w/ Ada

[David Weller]

In article <3f6qag$2bu@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu>,
Bruce D. Bachus <bachusb@seas.gwu.edu> wrote:
>I view this as a great opportunity to demonstrate the support network that
>we (the Ada community) have.  I'm posting it here since it may have
>applicability to others, and having been a reader for a few years, I know
>there is a wealth of information available.  Bottom line is he is a user 
>who is trying to make Ada a success...lets help...
>

Sounds like a call for Paul Pukite, who (IMHO) has established
himself as "Mr. Windows-Ada" :-) 


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