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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT for MS Visual Studio
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:37:56 +0100
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> On 13 Pa , 00:03, Anatoly Chernyshev <achernys...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I decided to myself long time ago that if I ever need
>> an interface for Ada program, that would be Visual Basic COM server
>> communicating with the Ada core through GNATCOM.
>
> Makes sense. Java<->Ada makes sense as well. Same for Tcl/Tk<->Ada,
> etc.
>
> But for me the really interesting alternative, and fundamentally
> different from the above, seems to be AWS. It can be embedded in the
> core application.
>
> Surely, not all GUI concepts have direct equivalents in html-based
> solutions, but there is a wide range of applications where it would
> be Just Fine.

I don't know whether AWS requires access to a file system, SSL etc,
but for a small-footprint alternative that doesn't (and that
definitely comes with GNAT-modified GPL!) see <a
href="http://embed-web-srvr.sourceforge.net>EWS</a>.

--S