Re: JGNAT

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Andrew Carroll wrote:

> Well, I am trying to recommend Ada for a project I am subcontracting for.
> The requirements are that it be crossplatform (Unix and Windows).  It
> requires a GUI and the non-gui code needs to be fast (not Java).  So, I'm
> not real sure what to use.  I guess I'm now thinking about de-coupling the
> GUI altogether and making the backend "talk" to the frontend in the
> client/server model.  That way I could develop the GUI with any number of
> "technologies" and the backend could be strictly Ada.

GtkAda works on Unix and Windows and uses native-compiled Ada, so it's 
much faster than Java.

The laser people at Livermore are writing their important code in Ada 
and their GUIs in something else and connecting them with CORBA. You 
might be able to do that with a portable GUI in Java and portable 
application code in Ada.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
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