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: 1108a1,465e3a50b8f9790a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,465e3a50b8f9790a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,465e3a50b8f9790a,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,465e3a50b8f9790a,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,465e3a50b8f9790a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (SEIC) Subject: SEIC News, Dec. 13, 1996 Date: 1996/12/13 Message-ID: <58si1k$enl@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> X-Deja-AN: 203974538 content-type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Software Engineering Information Center mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Software Engineering News Brief Week Ending: December 13, 1996 **************************************************************** 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 . SOURCE: Ada Strategies, v10 n2, pp. 9-11. ***************************************************************** 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, . SOURCE: Rational Online News, December 12, 1996, . ********************************************************** 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, . SOURCE: Rational Online News, December 5, 1996, . **************************************************** 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, . SOURCE: Vector Software, Inc., Press Release, August, 1996. **************************************************************** 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, ; (in Europe) ACT Europe, tel. +33 1 55 58 00 22, fax.+33 1 55 58 00 23, . SOURCE: ACT Press Release. ********************************************************************* 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. The DISA SEIC welcomes suggestions for and pointers to software engineering-related articles. 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