From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,39e272d357c68416 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Simon Wright Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? Date: 1999/11/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 554974885 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 References: <11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com> <384127A5.61431A14@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 943991191 nnrp-08:10949 NO-IDENT pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98 Organization: At Home Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Date: 1999-11-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie writes: > Apex describe them on their web site - > "Rational Apex provides a framework for defining architectural > components, known as Rational Subsystems�. These subsystems > integrate with the Rational Apex version control system and with Ada > 95 package hierarchies. Rational Apex prevents undesirable code > references by controlling visibility among architectural > components. Attempts to improperly reference units results in > compile time error messages. In this way, subsystems enable users to > automatically express and enforce the large-scale structure, or > architecture, of their applications." Subsystems may be good for a lot of things, but this particular one has always struck me as odd; especially in an environment where code is designed before it's implemented, and inspected afterwards.