Re: Ada -> Java by Java disassemlers?

[Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de>]

Dr. Michael Paus <paus@jb-paus.com> wrote:

> Just for curiosity. For what kind of project do you need an Ada to Java
> compiler?

I would like to code with Ada in the next generation platforms (Java/J2EE 
and/or .NET). I don't like the supported languages (Java, C#) pretty much. 

Unfortunately, JGNAT ist no longer supported. So we don't have any up-to-date 
Ada -> Java-Bytecode-Compilers in the future. But if we had an Ada -> Java 
source compiler, which takes in Ada program and compiles it into an 
equivalent Java program (source code as "very high level assembler code" ;-) 
then we would be independent of JDK versions. We just would compile the 
created intermediate Java source code with the most up-to-date Java compiler 
and we had it. The same way it would be possible to get Ada run on .NET. Java 
and C# have many features common to Ada, so it should not be too difficult to 
write an Ada -> Java or Ada -> C# compiler. Really, it would be much easier 
to write such a new source to source compiler than to deep into the Java or 
MSIL bytcode sea. I think at least a subset of Ada 95 (exceptions etc.) could 
be ported. If the whole Ada 95 standard (tasks etc.) could be ported to Java 
or C#, is another question. Anyway, for my most applications, I use only a 
subset of Ada. I don't think anyone would demand real time applications for 
.NET.

Somewhere I read about an "Ada 2005" standard. Are there any plans to extend 
Ada?

Ingo