From: seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (SEIC)
Subject: SEIC News, W/E March 7, 1997
Date: 1997/03/07
Date: 1997-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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Software Engineering News Brief
Week Ending: March 7, 1997
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NEW AJPO CHIEF DEFENDS ADA
Topic: Ada
The new interim AJPO Chief, Army Lt. Col. John A. "Drew" Hamilton, Jr.,
has some concerns about the NRC Ada study findings. The NRC study
(http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/docs/present/nrc) concluded that
support for Ada should be limited to warfighting systems. Lt. Col.
Hamilton feels that the report's definition of "warfighting" is too
narrow, and the report's assumption that COTS will serve as an
alternative to Ada system development.
"You're certainly not going to find fire control software for an M12A
tank at your local Egghead," stated Hamilton in reference to the COTS
plan. Hamilton also made it clear that although he is a staunch Ada
supporter, he is aware of certain realities stating, "...as much as I love
Ada, I love the Army more. We need to do what's right for the service."
SOURCE: Lais, Sami, "New AJPO chief defends Ada," Government Computer
News, March 3, 1997, v.16, n.5, pp.45-46, http://www.gcn.com.
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ADA PIVOTAL IN THE SUCCESS OF DMLSS
Topic: Ada, COE
The Office of Defense Health Affairs' new Defense Medical Logistics
Standard Support (DMLSS) system is proving to be a success by cutting
costs and speeding deliveries to DoD medical facilities. The DMLSS's
data warehouse is at 500,000 items and growing. Ada is the basis for many
programs that convert data to common formats and populate the data warehouse.
The next release of the DMLSS is expected to comply with DoD's Common
Operating Environment (COE) strictures.
SOURCE: Olsen, Florence, "Health records project hits paydirt,"
Government Computer News. Feb., 24, 1997, v.16 n.4 pp. 1, 8.
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THE VERDICT IS STILL OUT ON O-O DATABASES
Topic: Reuse
John McCormick, in his recent article in GCN, warns the buyer to beware
of all the claims being made about O-O databases. He contends that the
jury is still out on whether OODBMS objects will be as reusable as
developers contend, or whether they represent an evolutionary improvement
making database programming a bit easier.
SOURCE: McCormick, John, "Object-Oriented Databases," Government
Computer News, Feb. 24, 1997, v.16, n.4, pp. 43-45.
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ADA SUBTYPES CAN HELP SOLVE Y2K PROBLEM
Topic: Ada
In a letter to the editor of Crosstalk, Robert Leif contends that there
shouldn't be a Y2K problem with Ada or its successors, since Ada's
package structure will easily permit increasing the upper bound of
Year_Number beyond 2099.
Leif also asserts that in the cases of problematic non-Ada code, it would
be more cost-effective to replace present legacy code with Ada and
AdaSAGE rather than repair it.
For more information on AdaSAGE, visit:
<http://sageftp.inel.gov/sage/homepage.htm>.
SOURCE: Crosstalk, Feb., 1997, v.10, n.2, p.2.
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COE NOW SERVING UP JCALS
Topic: COE, Reuse
The COE is now serving up JCALS. The Joint Computer-Aided Acquisition
and Logistics Support System is the latest component of the DoD's Common
Operating Environment (COE).
At the behest of Rear Adm. John Gauss, director of DISA JIEO, the LCALS
team broke out the system's computing infrastructure software into
segments for use as COE application programming interfaces that DoD
organizations can reuse for JCALS development projects.
SOURCE: Grimm, Vanessa Jo, "COE now serving up JCALS," Government
Computer News, Dec., 9, 1996, v.15, n.30, p.51.
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