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From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE
Date: 1999/11/23
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Preben Randhol wrote in message ...
>"Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com> writes:
>
>| Robert Dewar is probably correct for the short term concerning GtkAda.
>| However, for the long term, please visit www.w3.org. XML does math, has
>| vectors, data types, forms, etc and is programming language and operating
>| system independent. I believe that XML and the Web is where the software
>| action will be.
>
>I'm cannot say that I see the relevance to XML here? The question was
>about a grafical toolkit not markup language.


Idea here is to  use JAVASCRIPT within XML documents to create
User Interface and exchange information between user form and Ada
application.
I think this approach is very good  as along term strategy.

Moreover,  this approach is the  universal approach to interact with
embedded applications. Now many comm. hardware manufactures use
embedded HTPP  server to provide remote control over hardware from
any network machine equipped with the browser which works
as a user GUI embedded into HTML document (e.g. Cisco
products family). I should say that this is extremely convenient
(I am using that to work with equipment).

More recent example is Erlang OTP that was mentioned recently
in one of the threads.
Among several standard modules that provide  user interface
(including Java, Tck/Tl ) it contain Internet Services Application (INETS)
module that is used to provide discussed above functionality.

Regards,
Vladimir Olensky