Re: Real time Java? Huh?

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Richard IRVINE <richard.irvine@eurocontrol.fr> writes:

> I see so many raging discussions on this newsgroup
> (comp.lang.java.advocacy) about templates or named parameters that it is
> refreshing to see contributions from the somewhat calmer Ada world, where
> many of these problems were well thought out years if not decades ago.
> 
> GNAT for Java sounds interesting. I wonder whether GNAT for Java implies
> coding in a subset of Ada, without pointers or access types and without
> manual memory allocation/deallocation, or will we be free to carry across
> dangling pointer and memory leakage problems from Ada into Java?

It's not "GNAT-for-Java", but rather "GNAT-for-JVM" (Java Virtual
Machine). Since the JVM allows pointers and access types, GNAT-for-JVM
will too (or at least I hope so - I don't have it yet !).
ObjectAda-for-JVM allows pointers and access types now; it supports
all of Ada (barring the many bugs, and most of the annexes :).

-- Stephe