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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9e7245906291526e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e7245906291526e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9e7245906291526e,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,9e7245906291526e,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,9e7245906291526e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (SEIC) Subject: SEIC News, W/E March 7, 1997 Date: 1997/03/07 Message-ID: <5fq3kv$9a7@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 223876293 Organization: Software Engineering Information Center Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1997-03-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Software Engineering News Brief Week Ending: March 7, 1997 ******************************************* 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. ******************************************* 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. **************************************************************** 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. ******************************************************************** 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: . SOURCE: Crosstalk, Feb., 1997, v.10, n.2, p.2. ************************************************** 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. ***************************************************** 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. Contact the DISA SEIC at: mailto:info@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us To subscribe to the "Software Engineering News Brief" electronic mailing list, send a message to: mailto:listproc@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us In the body of the message, write: subscribe newslist To unsubscribe, write: unsubscribe newslist No signatures please.