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UNIT NAME

ACE

VERSION
8.0
REVIEW CODE
C1 1.0 C
INET ADDRESS
AUTHOR
Paramax
RIGHTS
Approved for public release; distribution unlimited
COPYRIGHT
1990 Paramax
DATE CREATED
29 Oct 90
DATE RELEASED
14 Nov 93
DATE LAST UPDATED
14 Nov 93
LOCATION
PAL
ENVIRONMENT
UNIX;X Windows
LIMITATIONS
CERTIFICATION
Ada System Certifier_1 1.1
Date/Time of Processing: Saturday  11 June      1994 04:19:31Am
Overall Assessment of System: OK
Classification of System: C
Basis of Classification --
    Syntax Errors                               PASS
    Completeness                                PASS
    Independence from External Libraries        FAIL
    Independence from a Specific Ada Compiler   FAIL

Explanations for failures --
  System withs non-standard library units that are not provided
  System contains compiler-specific pragmas or uses Machine_Code

Number of ...
  Files             194
  Library Units     221
  Lines           131345
  Statements      25041
  Comments        52527

Unidentified Withed Units --
     17 unidentified withed units
Subunits and Parent Units --
     11 parent program units
        0 missing parent units
     54 subunits
        0 subunits found but not specified
        0 subunits specified but not found

CLASSIFICATION

KEYWORD
ACE
Ada Command Environment
Environment, Ada Command
INDEX
Paramax
DEPENDENCIES
SEE ALSO
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Rapid prototyping of general Ada applications
TAXONOMY


Software Development Tools
    Ada Command Environment


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ABSTRACT

ACE (Ada Command Environment)

The Ada Command Environment (ACE) is an interactive Ada environment coupled with a set of Ada abstract data types (ADTs). The interactive environment allows users to rapidly prototype general Ada applications, while the ADTs allow prototyping of applications for particular domains, such as X Window System applications. In addition, the ADTs provide an Ada view of underlying applications, which when combined with the interactive environment replaces the traditional role of a command language. When using ACE, Ada becomes the command language as well as the programming language. This version of ACE includes support for X Window System prototyping. This asset includes the ACE Users Manual.

This is in the source subdirectory.

ACE (Ada Command Environment) User Manual

This technical report provides users of the Ada Command Environment (ACE) with a description of each of the packages and subprograms that are provided with ACE. In addition, the report describes the overall purpose of ACE, general guidelines on ACE usage, and provides examples of typical user interaction during an ACE session.

This is in the userman subdirectory.

ACE/EIS Integration Lessons Learned

This document reports the lessons learned from integrating the Ada Command Environment (ACE) into the Prototype Engineering Information System (PREIS) environment. ACE is an interactive command language environment for Ada software development where Ada is both the programming language and the command language. PREIS is an object-oriented environment targeted for computer-aided engineering (CAE). During this task, PREIS demonstrated an ability to model several ACE constructs in an object-oriented fashion. ACE on the other hand, demonstrated its extensibility by the addition of abstract data types. These abstract data types give the user a window into the PREIS environment.

The ACE/PREIS integration effort was undertaken to identify and provide insights into issues related to tool integration in an object management system. The integration effort revealed the difficulty of integrating C with Ada and demonstrated again the necessity of good documentation. The requirement for a programmatic interface to PREIS for future integration efforts was also identified.

This is in the lessons subdirectory.


REVISION HISTORY

29 Oct 90   8.0   Paramax   Initial release to ASSET
14 Nov 93   8.0   ASSET     Initial release to the PAL

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