SEIC News, Dec. 13, 1996

SEIC News, Dec. 13, 1996

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Software Engineering News Brief
Week Ending:  December 13, 1996

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GREEN HILLS ADA 95 COMPILER AND TOOLS FOR 
32/64-BIT EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Topic:  Ada

At the recent TRI-Ada '96 Conference, Green Hills Software announced the 
first fully-validated Ada 95 optimizing compiler for 32/64-bit embedded 
systems.  Green Hills also announced AdaMULTI, a turnkey Ada 95 software 
development environment that is fully integrated with Wind River Systems' 
Tornado framework.

According to Green Hills, their Ada 95 product has been officially validated
for six different compiler implementations, one self-hosted SPARC/Solaris 
compiler and five embedded compilers:  68040, PowerPC and MIPS R4700 all 
running Wind River Systems' Tornado/VxWorks 5.3, and the Lockheed Martin 
RAD6000 and MIPS R3081 running VxWorks 5.2.

For product inquiries, call 800/789-9695 or e-mail <adasales@ghs.com>.

SOURCE:  Ada Strategies, v10 n2, pp. 9-11.

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RATIONAL ROSE TOOL USED IN IBM JAVA-BASED SOFTWARE REUSE PROJECT
Topic:  Reuse

Rational Software Corporation announced today that it is working with
IBM on its shareable frameworks software initiative, called the San Francisco 
Project. IBM's San Francisco Project chose Rational's visual modeling tool,
Rational Rose, to design, engineer, and bring its shareable software
components to market.

The San Francisco Project is an IBM initiative in which more than 75 
independent software providers worldwide are participating. This project 
is open to broad industry participation that will provide a series of 
high-level application frameworks that can be used to build 
business-critical, multiplatform applications. San Francisco frameworks, 
such as general ledger, accounts receivable, order processing, and 
warehouse management, will enable developers to reduce the time and 
expense of developing and maintaining customized business solutions.

For more information, contact:  Rational Software Corporation, 2800 San 
Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951, tel. 800/RAT-1212, fax. 
408/496-3636, <info@rational.com>.

SOURCE:  Rational Online News, December 12, 1996,  
<owner~rational_news@rational.com>.

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RATIONAL RELEASES NEW VERSION OF SOFTWARE-DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT FOR ADA 95
Topic:  Ada

Rational Software Corporation announced availability of a new version of 
its Rational Apex Ada 95/83 software-development environment for native 
and embedded-systems development. Rational Apex is an integrated, 
interactive, team-oriented programming environment that simplifies the 
process of building and managing Ada applications. Rational Apex Ada 
95/83 version 2.2 adds support for all of the major Ada 95 features for 
both object-oriented and real-time programming to its support for the Ada 
83 programming language. 

Ada 95 represents a major enhancement in the capabilities and appeal of 
Ada for large-scale software development. It provides in-depth support 
for object-oriented programming and features a series of significant 
improvements to Ada's support for real-time embedded systems. Ada 95, 
like Ada 83, is defined by a stable, well-articulated international 
standard that makes Ada applications highly portable across 
implementations.

For more information, contact Kara Myers, Rational Software Corp., 
tel. 408/496-3891, <karam@rational.com>.

SOURCE:  Rational Online News, December 5, 1996, 
<owner~rational_news@rational.com>.

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NEW VECTOR SOFTWARE TOOL COMPLEMENTS AdaCAST
Topic:  Ada

Vector Software, Inc., has announced the availability of an integrated 
code coverage tool to complement AdaCAST.  This new addition to the 
Vector product line (AdaCAST/Cover) will satisfy requests by current 
customers for a truly integrated coverage tool.

AdaCAST is a compiler and platform specific test system that automates 
unit and CSCI level testing of Ada programs.  This automation level 
includes that tasks of building complete test harnesses, test cases, 
execution reports, and code coverage.

For more information, contact:  Vector Software, Inc., 1130 Ten Rod Road, 
E-307, North Kingstown, RI, 02852-4152, tel. 401/295-5855, fax. 
401/295-5856, <info@vectors.com>.

SOURCE:  Vector Software, Inc., Press Release, August, 1996.

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GLADE 1.0 PUBLIC RELEASE IS NOW AVAILABLE
Topic: Ada

GLADE, the Distributed Systems Annex implementation for GNAT is an 
environment for developing distributed applications based on Annex E of 
the Ada 95 Reference Manual. This environment comprises a complete 
Partition Communication System (PCS) which can support several protocols 
on a network of heterogeneous machines, a simple partition description 
language, and utilities to build and start distributed applications.

This release supports the TCP/IP protocol and has been ported and tested on:

  - Sparc/Solaris (2.3 and above)
  - PC/Linux.
  - Sparc/SunOS (4.1.3)

Ports to most other major platforms (including SGI/Irix, Digital Unix,  
HP/HP-UX, Windows NT) are expected to appear in the future according to 
commercial interest. For more details, contact:  (in U.S.) Ada Core 
Technologies, tel. 212/620-7300x117, fax. 212/807-0162, <sales@gnat.com>; 
(in Europe) ACT Europe, tel. +33 1 55 58 00 22, fax.+33 1 55 58 00 23, 
<contact@act-europe.gnat.com>.

SOURCE:  ACT Press Release.

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