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: f43e6,8b81a9fd093c87f8,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b81a9fd093c87f8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,8b81a9fd093c87f8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,8b81a9fd093c87f8,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,8b81a9fd093c87f8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: cseic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (CSEIC) Subject: CSEIC News Briefs, W/E Aug. 22, 1997 Date: 1997/08/22 Message-ID: <5tknom$9p5@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 267994290 Organization: Computer Systems Engineering Information Clearinghouse Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1997-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Computer Systems Engineering News Briefs Week Ending: August 22, 1997 ************************************************* SAC'98 ADA AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRACK Topic: Ada A special track on Ada and Software Engineering will be held at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 1998 (SAC'98) in Atlanta, GA, February 27 - March 1, 1998. It will be a forum for engineers, researchers and practitioners throughout the world to share technical ideas and experiences relating to Ada applications and Software Engineering. Original papers, tutorials, and panel proposals are invited in all areas of Ada applications and Software Engineering technology. For more information, contact: . SOURCE: Ada User Journal, June 1997, v18, n2, pp. 62-63. ************************************************************ REUSE MODEL FOR JAVA DEVELOPERS Topic: Reuse Sun Microsystems' JavaBeans component architecture provides developers with a tool capable of generating reusable components regardless of the operating environment or tool used to create the code. A JavaBean is a Java software element that opens its features to a development tool, which allows the bean's features to be manipulated by a builder during construction. JavaBeans integrate and complement existing Java APIs to create a true enterprise computing environment. SOURCE: Baluta, Basil, "Reuse Model for Java Developers," InformationWeek: Apr 28, 1997; COPYRIGHT 1997 CMP Publications Inc. ********************************************************* BENEFITS OF REUSE Topic: Reuse Software reuse offers many potential benefits for Information Systems (IS) organizations, but it requires that IS change the way it develops software. Development cycles are made shorter, developers are made more productive, and code is of higher quality and is easier to maintain, but reuse requires a change in the way programmers think about development, and it needs the support of the entire organization. Managers often back off when they realize the investment required by reuse, not in the cost of tools but in the long-term commitment to design for reuse from the start. It can sometimes take two or three attempts to get a reusable software framework right. For example, Purolator Courier's development costs increased 20 percent when it adopted code reuse, due primarily to the extra time required to analyze the business and company strategy, but it now has about 20 core reusable business components implementing its primary business processes. SOURCE: Radding, Alan, "Benefits of reuse," InformationWeek: Mar 31, 1997; COPYRIGHT 1997 CMP Publications Inc. *********************************************************** TASH AVAILABLE ON ADAIC WEB SITE Topic: Ada TASH: A Free Platform-Independent Graphical User Interface Development Toolkit for Ada Accessible on the Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC) Web Site at: , TASH, a platform-independent Application Programming Interface (API) for developing Graphical User Interfaces (GUI), is described. This API includes a complete "thin" binding to Tcl and an experimental "thick" binding to Tk from Ada 95. Several features of Ada 95 such as access to subprograms, tagged types, and interface to C were used in this binding. In addition to HTML, the paper is also available in Postscript, Text, and MS Word 7.0 format. SOURCE: AdaIC ********************************************************** The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Computer Systems Engineering Information Clearinghouse (CSEIC) "Computer Systems Engineering News Briefs" is a compilation of summaries from software engineering-related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. The DISA CSEIC welcomes suggestions for and pointers to software engineering-related articles. Contact the DISA CSEIC at: mailto:info@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us To subscribe to the "Computer Systems 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. 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