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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Java wrappers around Ada?
Date: 22 Mar 2006 07:33:16 -0600
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In article <1143032491.488772.259820@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, kk_oop@yahoo.com writes:
> Hi.  My team has a bunch of legacy Ada code.  Our new code is being
> written in Java.  However, we still have many complex algorithms
> written in thousands of lines of Ada.  Rather than rewriting the
> tested/validated Ada code in Java, we'd like to create a Java facade
> that would delegate to the Ada code, thereby making the Ada code
> available to newer Java client objects.  Is this reasonable (as opposed
> to rewriting everything in Java)?  Anyone know what
> mechanisms/libraries would support such an approach?

Rewriting correct code solely for the purpose of getting it into another
language is always fraught with peril.  That includes going to Ada.