From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,77a63690022306d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-28 05:47:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Eric Merritt Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: NetBeans and ADA? Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:43:41 -0800 (PST) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1014903842 18683 137.194.161.2 (28 Feb 2002 13:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <_Tkf8.2894$lX4.1282107@typhoon.tampabay.rr.com> Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20561 Date: 2002-02-28T05:43:41-08:00 --- Justin Cummings wrote: > 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... I have been thinking along these same lines, though not for netbeans (I personally dislike that particular development platform). Brewing in my mind has been a set of plugins to support Ada in the Eclipse environment. As yet it is just an idea in the very early stages of forming, but at least this shows that someone else is haveing the same ideas. For those of you not familiar with these platforms for development (IDE's actually). They are both supposedly cross language development envirnments orginally supporting java. Netbeans is by far the more mature of the two and can be found at www.netbeans.org. Eclipse is a new open source offering from IBM and a group of vendors. Its heritage includes the VisualAge for Java series of IDE's (Personally the best in the business from my perspective) and further back the Envy smalltalk envirnment. It may be viewed at www.eclipse.org. Both of these are open source and freely available. I do warn you however that both are also resource hogs like no other. If anyone is interested in taking on this project I would be willing to put in time to see this come to fruition even in netbeans. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com