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AdaIC News
Brief
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Week Ending
May 3, 1996
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BROAD AREA ANNOUNCEMENT FOR Ada COMPUTER LANGUAGE COURSE FOR
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Ada 95 JAVA COMPILER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING
Intermetrics, Inc. recently announced the beta release of
AppletMagic, an Ada 95 Java byte-code compiler. Information,
demo "applets" written in Ada 95, and down-loadable binaries
for Beta release 1.1 of AppletMagic(tm) for Windows 95/NT
and Sparc SunOS4/Solaris 2.0 may be found at:
http://www.inmet.com/javadir/download
SOURCE:
Tucker Taft, Intermetrics, Inc.
ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY OPEN HOUSE AT MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY
Monmouth University
will host an Advanced Software
Technology Open House May 8-9, 1996 as a forum to both
introduce the many projects and activities of the Software
Engineering Department at Monmouth and provide a forum for
the discussion of the topic of Java, Internet programming,
and associated issues. Featured speakers include Cynthia
Rand, ASD(C3), Dr. Tucker Taft, Intermetrics, and Dr. Dennis
Govoni, Sun Microsystems.
There is no cost for attending the forums. The deadline to
RSVP is Monday, May 6th. Detailed information is available
on Monmouth's WWW page at:
http://www.monmouth.edu/muse/astoh.html
Information from the open house will be published in the
Public Ada Library and on the future Walnut Creek Ada CD-
Rom.
SOURCE:
Richard Conn, Public Ada Library (PAL) Manager
TARTAN UNVEILS Ada DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR ANALOG DEVICES SHARC
PROCESSOR FAMILY
Tartan, Inc. announced the release of its Ada Development
System for the ADSP-2106x SHARC (Super Harvard Architecture
Computer) DSPs from Analog Devices, Inc. last week at STC.
The Tartan Ada/SHARC solution is ideal for embedded systems
development in the defense and aerospace industries, as well
as other areas where DSPs are the processor of choice. These
include telecommunications, multimedia, and safety-critical
applications that require structured code for reliability
and maintainability.
SOURCE:
Tartan, Inc. News Release. April 23, 1996.
Contact: Lisa Knox, 412/856-3600, ext. 243.
PURE SOFTWARE AND OBJECTIVE INTERFACE SYSTEMS ANNOUNCE
INTENT TO MARKET Ada 95 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Pure Software recently announced an
agreement with Objective Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS) to market, resell and support
three of Pure Software's industry-leading automated software
quality products -- Purify, Quantify and PureCoverage. The
agreement demonstrates an increased effort by both companies
to provide the highest-quality tools to developers of
mission-critical Ada applications. Under the terms of the
agreement, OIS will bundle the Pure Software products into
its Acumentor suite of Ada 95 development tools under the
name Acumentor/Pure.
For more information, contact:
Toni Sottak, Corporate Communications Manager
Pure Software Inc.
Voice: (408)524-3651
E-mail: tsottak@pure.com
Phil Carrasco, Director, Business Development
Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
Voice: (703) 295-6500
E-mail: info@ois.com
SOURCE:
Pure Software Press Release. April 23, 1996.
ORBIX/Ada AVAILABLE FROM OIS
Also released earlier this year by OIS and IONA Technologies
Ltd. was an Ada implementation on ORBIX, IONA's
implementation of the Object Management Group's (OMG's)
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard.
Orbix/Ada supports rapid development of highly-efficient,
distributed object-oriented applications that follow a
transparent and straightforward, standards-based model.
"Complex programs no longer need rely on expensive,
proprietary solutions. Orbix/Ada opens the door to using Ada
for large-scale banking, telecommunications and engineering
applications. Orbix/Ada makes building information systems
manageable," stated Bill Beckwith, Vice President of
Objective Interface Systems.
Initial availability of Orbix/Ada and Acumentor/orbix for
Ada 95 was planned for the first quarter of 1996 on SunSoft
Solaris. Versions for other UNIX systems, VMS, Windows NT,
and Windows 95 are planned shortly thereafter.
SOURCE:
Objective Interface Systems, Inc. Press Release. February
12, 1996.
Ada 95 TESTING PRODUCT TO BE DEVELOPED
IPL Software Products Group, Bath, U.K., has recently
announced its intentions to specify a product (provisionally
named AdaTEST 95) which will allow Ada 95 features to be
tested. IPL welcomes the Ada community and those actively
developing Ada 95 software to volunteer ideas on methods of
testing Ada 95.
IPL can be contacted at the following address:
IPL Software Products Group
Eveleigh House, Grove Street, BATH BA1 5LR, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 444888
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 444400
E-mail: ipl@iplbath.com
URL: http://www.iplbath.com
SOURCE:
Testing Times, IPL Software Products Newsletter. April 1996.
The AdaIC's "Ada News Brief" is a compilation of summaries from Ada-
related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. The
AdaIC welcomes suggestions for and pointers to Ada-related articles.
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