Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <862t3o$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> It's out there if you pay for it. So far they haven't made a
> public release, and no one who has it wants to icurr the wrath
> (annoyance?) of ACT enough to release a copy.

Actually the situation is as follows. JGNAT is not yet available
either in a public release or as a supported product (no one
has yet paid for it :-)

Rather it is in an intensive beta testing mode at the moment,
and a number of our customers and some other people who work
closely with us are helping us with this beta testing.

The testing is going well, but there are still some glitches
that must be fixed before a release. Probably the main one is
that applets can only be run under the applet viewer and not
from browsers, we really feel that this problem must be fixed
before a general release.

It would indeed be inappropriate to release the beta version
generally, and that is why it has not been done (by us or
anyone else).

It is never helpful to release software prematurely. The fact
that software is licensed under the GPL does not somehow change
this fundamental observation!

I know that it is frustrating to a lot of folks that JGNAT is
not out there yet, it's frustrating to us here at ACT here too,
but we never operate in the mode of releasing things before we
think they are ready.

The good news is that we are really VERY close now to the
release, which will include both a commercial version of
JGNAT Professional, and a public release of JGNAT. We will
post an announcement on CLA when it becomes available.

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

appropriately


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