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From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38d1fe109cd56c87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: XML-HTML Forms local execution was RE: GNAT, LINUX, KDE Date: 1999/11/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 553627035 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <383CDA09.38067366@research.canon.com.au> To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr Importance: Normal X-Trace: menuisier.enst.fr 943709137 4079 137.194.161.2 (27 Nov 1999 13:25:37 GMT) Organization: ENST, France X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Nov 1999 13:25:37 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-27T13:25:37+00:00 List-Id: From: Bob Leif To: Geoff Bull, Preben Randhol, David Botton, et al. Firstly, I have taken the liberty of changing the name of the subject to one that describes the content of these postings. Over the last 5 months, I have received numerous assurances from both my friends in the Ada community and of at least one developer of a browser that my request was quite trivial. I have also received many suggestions. Unfortunately, none of these were completely working examples. I suspect that some of the problem may be because of my lack of expertise and also the result of differences between the various browsers and operating systems. The original and current problem is: To create Ada software for processing HTML including HTML forms that will work totally on the client computer (PC). I wish to use HTML forms as the front-end for a project. There is obvious commercial utility to do this under Windows 98. However, for hard real-time applications any of the following operating systems should permit my application to be the sole executing software on the system. This application can not be interrupted except perhaps by CTRL-Alt_Del or the reset button. I believe that this should be possible with DOS, Windows CE, or Linux with an Ada core. My application could work with Windows 98 providing it could monopolize (no interrupts) a DOS Window for my instrument controller. There is no GUI present when my program takes data. In order to be absolutely explicit, I have reproduced my form below. The question is: How do I get the string named test into the Ada program, HTML_Ada.exe? Is it via the command line or some other means? Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ (out2) ------------------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Bull [mailto:geoff@research.canon.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 10:41 PM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. wrote: > However, being neither competent in JAVA nor an expert on > servers, I still do not know if this example is relevant to > my question. > This question was initially posed to Team-Ada. > Is it feasible to create Ada software for processing HTML > that will work totally on the client computer (PC)? > I wish to use HTML forms as the front-end for a project. Sorry, I had lost sight of your question. The point of the Java web server code was merely to support David Botton's view that embedding an http server wouldn't be "that much work", a point of view that has been challenged. You need understand neither Java nor servers to see from the Java code that an embedded http server can be very small (even though this one can't process forms). Geoff