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From: Jim Rogers <ada_daddy@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Message passing code
Date: 1999/06/25
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In article <3772AD75.F5E8AAED@hiwaay.net>,
  Bruce or Tracy <bljacobs@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> At work, we are currently using Ada.Stream.  This is
> the mechanism for (at least parts of) HLA (High
> Level Architecture) where separate simulations
> communicate via a Run Time Infrastructure package.
>
> In the past, others used IEEE standards' formatted
> text strings in the DIS world.
>
> In these instances, the format of the message as
> well as the mechanism were a standard for that
> particular certification.
>

Ada.Streams is a very good tool. It is not, however, a standard
beyond the world of Ada. Ada.Streams is a tool for converting
between a binary data stream and internal Ada object representation.
The binary data stream format must still be "standardized", or
at least agreed upon by all applications cooperating in a
communication community.

--
Jim Rogers
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA


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