Re: NetBeans and ADA?

["tony gair" <tonygair@nespamtome.btinternet.com>]

I currently have a pre Alpha Ada client server application using Samuel
Tardieu's Sockets application,
The client interface is currently using Gtkada and adasockets  to 'talk' to
the user.

For a number of reasons I am finding this a little unsatisfactory and once I
have 'completed this application, I'm hoping to replace the client using a
java applet and  the relatively newly released package JAWS.sockets, using
the following technique,

Have the user interface as an applet. To keep the applet sandboxing happy
(i.e. the sockets only allowed to connect to the server running the
webpages) write a java application (to run serverside) which relays messages
to the client using java.net, and relays messages serverside to an ada
application using JAWS.sockets to talk to adasockets on the serverside
application. The Ada server application could be on another machine.

Although I see no problem YET with this untried technique, the devils are
hiding in the details, and I would be pleased to see if anyone can predict
where these naughty little demons are hiding.

The advantages of this untried technique (if it works) is that the Java
user interface will run on more OS's (even on the Psion) and Ada is running
Server side (which I definitely won't be converting to Java for reliability,
speed and a million other reasons).

Would this work? ,
has anyone done this already or something similar?




"Justin Cummings" <jcummings8@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
>
> With the recent lack of activity, I thought this may provide a little
spark
> in the discussion...
>
> The "NetBeans" development environment has proven to be stable,
open-source,
> multi-platform, highly-extensible, full-featured, standards-based,
> widely-used, indefinately supported .. and free.. IDE/development studio.
> This would seem like a natural progression from the basic text, GTK, or
> TCL/TK cross-platform development tool-set; however, none to my knowledge
> exists.
>
> Why has an ADA language module not been produced (or even proposed) for
> Netbeans?   Or is there one... open-source or not, which receives little
> promotion or recognition?  If so where could I find information about it?
>
> For a number of years a marriage between Java and Ada in application
> development has been in place, thus the apparent 'lack of' an ADA module
for
> NetBeans is quite surprising to say the least.  Given the dwindling list
of
> vendors that will continue to develop and support ADA tools makes
something
> like this more and more appealing...the last release of Rational Apex was
> two+ years ago?  Sun dropped support what, four to five years ago?  I'd
like
> to see more options available other than just GNAT...
>
> NetBeans.org:  www.netbeans.org
>
>
> J. Cummings
>
> The views and opinions presented here do not represent the official views
of
> my employer, any organization named here, or elsewhere.
>
>