EZ2LOAD - PLUG-AND-PLAY Ada83/Ada95 FOR DOS

The George Washington University authored the package ez2load, a "plug-and-play" distribution of free Ada compilers and other tools for MS-DOS. It includes GNAT for DOS, the GW-GNAT editor, a new Turbo-style editor called AdaCAPS, GW-Ada/Ed, AVLAda9X and Ada-Tutor. Distribution consists of a number of diskette-size zip files, together with a menu-driven installer program. Intended mainly for the Ada CD-ROM, this distribution is equally useful as an ftp or diskette package. Prof. Michael B. Feldman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, led the project.

SOURCE: Ada Joint Program Office

THE ASEET TEAM IS WELCOMED TO FGIPC

The Ada Software Engineering Education and Training (ASEET) Team was welcomed as one of the 32 Federation of Government Information Processing Councils (FGIPC).

The ASEET Team, sponsored by the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO), has reorganized and established themselves as an independent organization. This opens the door for membership to private sector educators for the first time.

The FGIPC promotes improved communications between information technology users and managers in government (including State and Local), academia and industry. FGIPC also represents the United States on International Council for Information Technology in Government Administration.

SOURCE:
Ada Joint Program Office 

      Ada LANGUAGE REFERENCE MANUAL TO BE PUBLISHED 
                     BY SILICON PRESS

Silicon Press, Summit, NJ, will soon be publishing the Ada 95 Language Reference Manual. Materials for the publication were sent out this week. Copies of the LRM are currently available through the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) and National Technical Information Services (NTIS).

SOURCE:
Ada Joint Program Office

RATIONAL ADDS SUPPORT FOR Ada 95

Rational Apex Ada 2.0, just released by Rational Software Corporation, features new code-generation support for important Ada 95 real-time features, such as protected types. The release of Rational Apex is one step in Rational's process of offering full Ada 95 support in 1996.

Rational Apex is an integrated, interactive, software engineering environment for controlling the development of complex software systems. The new technology provides improved code quality and shares a common set of runtime libraries with the VADS family of cross-compilers.

Rational Apex Ada 2.0 adds support for Ada 95 and now runs on Digital Alpha, HP 9000 and Silicon Graphics work stations, as well as other standard open-systems platforms. It will be validated under ACVC 2.0.

SOURCE:
Rational Software Corporation, 2800 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051-0951, Tel. 408/496-3600 or 800/RAT- 1212, Fax 408/496-3636, e-mail: product_info@rational.com, URL: http://www.rational.com