Re: GNAT, LINUX, KDE

["Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>]

David Botton wrote in message <81k70k$197u$1@news.gate.net>...

>What is the big deal to have an Ada application that embeds a small web
>server.

>The Java code posted just proves my point. Add to that some simple
>handling of forms (and XML if you must) and there you go.


Another HTTP Server example written in C++  from  very well known
Douglas C. Schmidt is located at:
   http://siesta.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE_wrappers/apps/JAWS/server/

This HTTP server comes with the ACE ( The Adaptive Communication
Environment) source code distribution.

ACE home page is  http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html

   ACE has now become almost de-facto standard  in industry and
has a lot of industrial sponsors and users  (big players).
Even companies that use Ada are presented among them
(including Boeing and Lockheed Martin ).
This list just confirms that there is great need for such OO tool.

   I know that some people are working on creating Ada bindings to
TAO which means also bindings to ACE itself as TAO has been
built on top of the ACE.
    I think that it would be better if something like this would be done
in pure Ada. I know this is not simple.  Doug Schmidt spent many
years for all that.  But he looked into the future and his guess
was right.

  If similar communication subsystem would be a part of a standard
or semi-standard Ada environment  it could provide an excellent
platform  for many great things and make Ada more competitive
in some areas where C++ has better positions.

For instance Erlang ( http://www.erlang.org/)  from Ericsson has
much of that functionality (including HTTP server) in it's predefined
environment.
What is interesting Ericsson  is also among ACE sponsors.

It is interesting to know what others think regarding having
that functionality as part of Ada predefined environment.

Importance of communications increases every year.

Regards,
Vladimir Olensky