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From: "Michael Garrett" <michaelgarrett@csi.com>
Subject: Re: Project: Free OS and Other Projects Continued
Date: 2000/01/15
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Here's my 1 cent.

What about an application like the Visual Basic IDE or Symantec's Visual
Cafe? The system could use a large "Component" library ( written in ADA ) as
well as existing Microsoft Component Technology. It could also support ADA
to Java Byte code, making available the use of existing Java Libraries, and
Java Beans.

Application wizards could be provided that not only create "Components" of
various types but also allow the plug in of well known "Patterns" from a
pattern library.
The user could even create "Patterns" that get added to his pattern library
for reuse.

Maybe even include code generation capability from UML .............

Of course it would have to run on Microsoft Platforms as well as Linux.....

This could imply using JGNAT, and having the IDE run on the virtual
machine??

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Michael C. Garrett
Vice President Research and Development
Medical Research Laboratories
www.mrlinc.com
michaelgarrett@csi.com