Ada Web Services & Eclipse Plug-in, Mon 11 Apr 20:00, Ada-Belgium

Ada Web Services & Eclipse Plug-in, Mon 11 Apr 20:00, Ada-Belgium

[Dirk Craeynest]

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                          Updated announcement

   A d a - B e l g i u m   S p e c i a l   E v e n i n g   E v e n t

        Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce our technical event:
        a product presentation by Patricia Langle, Aonix France

             E c l i p s e   p l u g - i n   f o r   A d a
                 ( O b j e c t A d a   o r   G N A T )

                    and a technical presentation by
                  Jean-Pierre Rosen of Adalog, France

       W e b - e n a b l i n g   A d a   A p p l i c a t i o n s
                            w i t h   A W S

                     Monday, April 11, 2005, 20:00

             at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science
       Campus de la Plaine, building NO, Solvay room (5th floor)
          Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels

         (after the Ada-Belgium 2005 General Assembly at 19:00)

    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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Announcement
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Ada-Belgium will hold its 12th annual General Assembly on Monday,
April 11, 2005, at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science,
Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels, at 19:00.
The official convocation is distributed separately to members and
is also available on the Ada-Belgium web-server.

There will be refreshments and pizza for Ada-Belgium members at 18:15.
Please notify us if you are a current or new member and intend to
participate at this informal "pre-meeting".

At 20:00 the General Assembly will be followed by a short product
announcement of an "Eclipse plug-in for Ada (ObjectAda or GNAT)",
by Patricia Langle from Aonix France, and at 20:15 by a technical
presentation on "Web-enabling Ada Applications with AWS", by
Jean-Pierre Rosen from AdaLog, France.

Everyone interested is welcome: you don't have to be a member to attend.

20:00-20:15 - Eclipse plug-in for Ada (ObjectAda or GNAT)
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Abstract

The Eclipse platform is a generic and open architecture for building
integrated development environments (IDEs). Written in Java and
available on a wide range of OS, it permits to manage user's workspace,
providing navigation view, text editor, outline view, ...
It's built on mechanisms for discovering, integrating, and running
modules called plug-ins.  A tool provider integrates tools in Eclipse
by writing separate plug-ins that operate on files in the workspace.

The Eclipse platform, by itself is not dedicated to any language. The
Java Development Tooling (JDT) is a set of plug-ins which add Java
program development capabilities to the Platform. A C Development
Tooling (CDT) does the same for C program development.  Aonix is
working today on an ADT (Ada Development Tooling) that will permit
Ada developers to access that full-featured IDE.

Speaker

Patricia Langle, South Europe Presales Manager, Aonix France

More information

See the press release at http://www.aonix.com/pr_07.26.04.html and the
article in ADT Magazine at http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=9583.

20:15-21:45 - Web-enabling Ada Applications with AWS
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Abstract

This presentation describes AWS, the Ada Web Server, and how to use it
for the development of web applications. It describes the principles
of AWS, from the most basic functionalities to the more advanced ones
(Authentication, SOAP interface, session management, hotplugs,
multi-server applications, etc.) The talk emphasizes practical usage
of AWS, and presents design patterns that have proved effective for
developing existing applications. It compares the development process
with AWS to other techniques.  The presentation provides attendees with
the information needed to assess whether AWS is appropriate to their
needs, and the necessary knowledge to start writing full-scale Web
applications.  Attendees should have some knowledge of Ada
programming.  No previous knowledge of Web programming or HTML is
required.

AWS is a free (GMGPL) software component written by Pascal Obry and
Dmitriy Anisimkov that allows developing Web applications in Ada.
Unlike other methods that require a dedicated server (like Apache),
AWS provides services to develop applications that act as autonomous
Web servers, using the Ada language for the semantic part of the
application instead of scripting languages like Perl or Python. This
allows AWS to be used for regular Web servers as well as for writing
applications that offer a Web interface to control more traditional
processing functions. AWS is a mature product that has been used in
many professional applications.

Speaker

J-P. Rosen graduated from ENST (Ecole Nationale Sup�rieure des
T�l�communications) in 1975, and obtained PhD in 1986.  He started as a
software engineer at the computing centre of ENST.  After a Sabbatical
at New York University on the Ada/ED Project, he worked as Professor at
ENST, where he was responsible for the teaching of Operating Systems,
Software Engineering, Compilation and Ada. He created ENST's master's
degree in Software Engineering. He has now formed Adalog, a company
specialized in high level training, consultancy, and software
development in the fields of Ada, OOD, and associated technologies.

J-P. Rosen has written "HOOD: an Industrial Approach for Software
Design", the tutorial book for the HOOD 4 method. This was undertaken
on behalf and under control of the HOOD User Group. This book is
currently the only official tutorial book for the HOOD method; details
can be obtained from http://www.adalog.fr/hoodbook.htm  Other book
publications by J-P. Rosen include the translation in French of Booch's
"Software Engineering with Ada", and a book called "M�thodes de G�nie
Logiciel avec Ada 95" (Software Engineering Methods with Ada 95). He
can be reached via email at rosen at adalog.fr

More information

AWS, a complete Web development framework, is available on the Libre
Site for Free Software Developers at http://libre.adacore.com/aws/

Participation
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Everyone interested is welcome at either or both parts of this meeting.
As usual, the event is free and presentations are in English.

If you plan to attend the General Assembly or the technical
presentation, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by e-mail
at the address below (please also specify if you intend to participate
at the informal "pre-meeting"). Although no formal registration is
required, this helps our preparations.

For more information and directions see the web-page mentioned above.

Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels!

Dirk Craeynest
President Ada-Belgium
Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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                            Acknowledgements

 We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
   activities: AdaCore, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven),
 Offis nv/sa - Aubay Group, and Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

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