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: ff6c8,37e6dbf5e31f6da0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,37e6dbf5e31f6da0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,37e6dbf5e31f6da0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,37e6dbf5e31f6da0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,37e6dbf5e31f6da0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Software Engineering News) Subject: Software Engineering News Brief Date: 1996/11/01 Message-ID: <55dr50$ch1@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> X-Deja-AN: 193770186 content-type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: SEIC mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Software Engineering News Brief Week Ending 11/1/96. *************************************************** ARTICLE CODE KEY: Articles contained in the Software Engineering News Brief are classified according to the four major areas covered by the Software Engineering Information Center (SEIC). They are: ADA: Ada and Ada 95 related issues. REUSE: Software reuse related issues. DII: Defense Information Infrastructure related issues. COE: Common Operating Environment related issues. ******************************** AJPO SAYS ADA'S FUTURE IS SOLID Even if Ada loses its preferred status for all but military weapons systems, the language won't die, said Dr. Charles Engle, chief of the Defense Department's Ada Joint Program Office. AJPO, which promotes the DoD-funded language, plans to win greater acceptance through education, Engle said. This year, all freshman at the U.S. Military Academy and the Air Force Academy are required to take Ada 95 programming. AJPO has won commitments to Ada 95 from 17 DoD program managers, through incentives that include free training and financial assistance with tools and bindings. Engle said that a National Research Council review of DoD's Ada policy, due October 31, likely will recommend that Ada remain the preferred language for certain command-and-control systems. He expects the report to recommend using commercial applications elsewhere. TOPIC: ADA SOURCE: Government Computer News v15(25), Oct. 7, 1996, p.3. ******************************* YEAR 2000 NO PROBLEM FOR ADA Ada developers who've been scorned by the C/C++ camp might be laughing all the way to the year 2000. Ada applications aren't likely to fail any time between now and January 1, 2000, or beyond, for the simple reason that Ada doesn't let programmers represent dates in two-digit shorthand. "There's no problem with Ada," said Jacques Brygier, marketing director for Thompson Software Products. "The language has been defined in a way that you cannot make this kind of mistake." According to Dr. Charles Engle, chief of the Ada Joint Program Office, the Ada language itself has built-in dates from 1901 to 2099, thus eliminating the 2000 problem. TOPIC: ADA SOURCE: Olsen, Florence. "Ada sails smoothly into 2000," Government Computer News v15(25), Oct. 7, 1996, p. 33. ************************************* DCE INCORPORATED INTO WORLD WIDE WEB CLIENTS AND SERVERS Government Computer News reports that vendors have announced the first products incorporating the Distributed Computed Environment (DCE) into World Wide Web clients and servers. IBM's DCE-based "DFS Web" and Transarc Corporation's DCE "DFS Light" incorporate DCE server software and protocols for making Web-type environments practical for secure intranets. They will deal with a "security problem that the Web up to this point has not been able to solve," said Ron Galvin, a consultant with Keane Federal Systems in Columbia, MD. The products, priced at about $75 for client software and at about $1500 for the server, will be shipped this Fall and in early 1997. TOPIC: DII, COE SOURCE: Olsen, Florence. "DCE services start to appear in Web clients and servers," Government Computer News v15(27), Oct. 21, 1996, p. 36. ******************************************* DOD SIMULATION STANDARDS PROMOTE REUSE The Defense Department has established a new High Level Architecture (HLA) in order to attain a higher return on its investment in modeling and simulation technology. This new technical architecture, to which all present and future simulation projects must conform, lays out basic rules of behavior simulation that programs should follow and defines the interfaces through which independently developed programs can interact. DoD believes that HLA will make it easier to get more use and, importantly, more reuse out of its simulation programs. By providing interoperability, the new architecture will allow the quick "federation" of simulation programs by tying together programs developed through different services. Joint programs are a priority because man DoD missions require joint service participation. An order signed last month by the under-secretary of Defense for acquisition and technology requires all future simulation programs to comply with HLA and all existing programs to be brought into compliance or phased out by the first day of fiscal year 2001. TOPIC: REUSE SOURCE: Monroe, John Stein. "DoD adopts simulation standards," Federal Computer Week v10(30), October 7, 1996, p. 10, 16. ******************************************************* The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Software Engineering Information Center (SEIC) "Software Engineering News Brief" is a compilation of summaries from software engineering-related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. 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