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From: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner)
Subject: Re: COM & ADA
Date: 1998/02/12
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Date: 1998-02-12T00:00:00+00:00
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Juergen > ... You can use the Ada95 tagged record mechanism to construct your
        > COM objects.
        > The real bad news is of courses, that all the header files with all
        > the predefined GUIDS, Interfaces etc, etc. only exist for C/C++,
        > so you have to do a lot to get a nice set of Ada95 packages to be
        > able to use COM easily (if that's possible at all, but thats a 
        > different story;-))

Does anyone know what has already been done in the area of these header files?

What about interfaces to Microsoft Word and to Direct X via Ada? It might
sometimes be easier to do a specific component like those two, rather than
provide an interface to all the interfaces of the Component Object Model
in Ada.

Mike Brenner mikeb@mitre.org