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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:24:53 -0500
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We have a similar problem with C, and found it is pretty straight 
forward to wrap Ada in C calls.  Could you do that, then call the C 
calls from Java?

JAF

kk_oop@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi.  My team has a bunch of legacy Ada code.  Our new code is being
> written in Java.  However, we still have many complex algorithms
> written in thousands of lines of Ada.  Rather than rewriting the
> tested/validated Ada code in Java, we'd like to create a Java facade
> that would delegate to the Ada code, thereby making the Ada code
> available to newer Java client objects.  Is this reasonable (as opposed
> to rewriting everything in Java)?  Anyone know what
> mechanisms/libraries would support such an approach?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ken
> 


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