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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/11
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Date: 1997-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
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	 ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM

            Brest, France, September 11, 1997


Today, at the Workshop on Methods and Tools for Ada 95 in Brest, France, Ada
Core Technologies and ACT Europe announced a joint project to port the GNAT
Ada 95 technology to the Java programming environment. This work is partially
supported by the Ada Joint Program Office.

The Java(TM) technology, recently introduced by Sun Microsystems, is a
paradigm whose goal is to add programming flexibility to the Internet in a
platform-independent manner.

Although the Java environment comes with a default programming language, this
language is not a fundamental component of the technology. Any programming
language which can be mapped onto the Java Virtual Machine can be used to
develop Java applications.

The final GNAT-to-Java system, to be implemented entirely in Ada 95, will be
available from Ada Core Technologies and ACT Europe, with full commercial
support.

Following the standard policies of Ada Core Technologies, the entire system
will be distributed as free software, and will be freely available, with
source code, through the Internet.  Because of the large GNAT user community,
porting GNAT to the Java environment will be an effective way to reinforce
Ada's position in the emerging arena of Internet computing, making GNAT the
first end-to-end Free Software solution in this growing market.

An important objective of our project is to make our product fully
interoperable with Java, the programming language, allowing programmers to
freely and naturally interface between Ada packages and Java classes, with
the ability to have class (or tagged type) hierarchies cross language
boundaries. Programmers will be able to use the full Java API and Foundation
Classes as well as write JavaBeans components in Ada and be assured that
their code will be fully interoperable with the Java world and Java enabled
browsers.

A preliminary demo of an Ada-to-Java byte code compiler will be given at
Tri-Ada in St. Louis and public releases of the GNAT-to-Java system will be
made available periodically.

Commercial support for the GNAT-to-Java system will be available from
Ada Core Technologies. For more information please contact:

In the U.S., contact Ada Core Technologies at:
Tel: +1 (212) 620 7300 ext 117
Fax: +1 (212) 807 0162
Email: sales@gnat.com

In Europe, contact ACT Europe at:
Tel: +33 1 55 58 00 22
Fax: +33 1 55 58 00 23
Email: sales@act-europe.fr