RE: GUI toolkit for Ada again

["McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me>]

In article <mailman.994462029.11996.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Robert C.
Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com> wrote:

> From: Bob Leif To: Gart Scott, Larry Kilgallen et al.
> 
> At SIGAda 2001, I will chair a workshop, "Creating a Symbiotic
> Relationship Between XML and Ada". One of the main subjects of this
> workshop will be, what is the status and what needs to be done to create
> a portable GUI based on XML and Ada?
> 
> I might note that a very significant part of a simple, user-friendly,
> small, commercial operating system could be based on an XML/Ada GUI and
> the following Ada components: a real-time kernel, Ada-POSIX, and an Ada
> 95 based object-relational database. The addition of a rationally
> designed Ada/XML Office suite would be a life-saver application. I will
> leave the term, killer application, to the present commercial
> manufacturers' products, which are very good at increasing stress.
> 
> 

Have we considered investigating Open Office at www.openoffice.org for
just such an endeavor? It's cross platform, Open Source, and handles 
Microsoft Office data formats.
I've looked at it, and it certainly appears that it fits right in with the 
description you've given above. It also appears that good chunks of it
could stand a good sound rewrite in Ada code. It's pretty jumbled right now.

Your opinion?

McDoobie
chris@dont.spam.me