Understand for Ada and Rational Apex Ada

Understand for Ada and Rational Apex Ada

[Peter Richtmyer]

We are evaluating Understand for Ada for use on Solaris
with Rational Apex Ada and Clearcase. It seems like it 
would be useful if we can integrate UFA with Apex so that
we can use UFA to navigate around and then select a file(s)
to view and edit. But would probably want it to launch 
the Apex editor. Don't know if it could be done right.

Does anyone have experience or thoughts regarding such
an environment?  Or any comments regarding UFA that could
be enlightening (i.e. just about any comments on it  :-)

The UFA graphical representations seem to be helpful. But
our system's extensive use of internal callbacks and 
generic routines seems to limit its usefulness somewhat. 
As it would any tool.

Thanks,
Peter

Re: Understand for Ada and Rational Apex Ada

[Marc A. Criley]

Peter Richtmyer wrote:
> 
> We are evaluating Understand for Ada for use on Solaris
> 
   <snip>

> Does anyone have experience or thoughts regarding such
> an environment?  Or any comments regarding UFA that could
> be enlightening (i.e. just about any comments on it  :-)

I found U4A to be one of the few development aids that actually lived up
to its marketing claims.  It sucked in our code base without a hiccup,
and the customer support was excellent--on a part with ACT's.

Where it fit really well was as a "programmer's assistant".  If I needed
to do some quick lookups, procedure call chains, or diagrams, that info
was readily available from the tool.  While I'm not currently working on
a project that needs a tool like that, if/when I get back onto one, I
will definitely want U4A in my arsenal.

A _very_ satisfied customer,

Marc A. Criley, Consultant
Quadrus Corporation
www.quadruscorp.com

Re: Understand for Ada and Rational Apex Ada

[Greg Bek]

Peter,
Email me if you want some help in getting the Apex editor to start.
Apex has a very extense command line interface.

Greg Bek
gab-spam-me-not@rational.com  (remove the obvious)