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ADA Volume 23 USER Number 1 JOURNAL March 2002 Contents page Editorial Policy for Ada User Journal 2 Editorial 3 News 5 Conference Calendar 44 Forthcoming Events 51 Ada UK 2002 Sponsors 64 Ada-Europe Associate Members (National Ada Organizations) Inside Back Cover Ada User Journal Volume 23, Number 1, March 2002 2 Editorial Policy for Ada User Journal Publication Original Papers Commentaries Ada User Journal – The Journal for the Manuscripts should be submitted in We publish commentaries on Ada and international Ada Community – is accordance with the submission software engineering topics. These published by Ada-Europe. It appears guidelines (below). may represent the views either of four times a year, on the last days of individuals or of organisations. Such March, June, September and All original technical contributions are articles can be of any length – December. Copy date is the first of the submitted to refereeing by at least two inclusion is at the discretion of the month of publication. people. Names of referees will be kept Editor. confidential, but their comments will Opinions expressed within the Ada Aims be relayed to the authors at the discretion of the Editor. User Journal do not necessarily Ada User Journal aims to inform represent the views of the Editor, Ada- readers of developments in the Ada The first named author will receive a Europe or its directors. programming language and its use, complimentary copy of the issue of the general Ada-related software Journal in which their paper appears. Announcements and Reports engineering issues and Ada-related We are happy to publicise and report activities in Europe and other parts of By submitting a manuscript, authors grant Ada-Europe an unlimited licence on events that may be of interest to our the world. The language of the journal readers. is English. to publish (and, if appropriate, republish) it, if and when the article is Although the title of the Journal refers accepted for publication. We do not Reviews to the Ada language, any related topics require that authors assign copyright to Inclusion of any review in the Journal are welcome. In particular papers in the Journal. is at the discretion of the Editor. any of the areas related to reliable Unless the authors state explicitly A reviewer will be selected by the software technologies. otherwise, submission of an article is Editor to review any book or other The Journal publishes the following taken to imply that it represents publication sent to us. We are also types of material: original, unpublished work, not under prepared to print reviews submitted consideration for publication from elsewhere at the discretion of the • Refereed original articles on elsewhere. Editor. technical matters concerning Ada and related topics. News and Product Announcements Submission Guidelines • News and miscellany of interest to Ada User Journal is one of the ways in All material for publication should be the Ada community. which people find out what is going on sent to the editor. Electronic in the Ada community. Since not all of submission is preferred – typed • Reprints of articles published our readers have access to resources manuscripts will only be accepted by elsewhere that deserve a wider such as the World Wide Web and the Editor by prior arrangement. audience. Usenet, or have enough time to search Prospective authors are encouraged to through the information that can be contact the Editor by email to • Commentaries on matters relating found in those resources, we reprint or determine the best format for to Ada and software engineering. report on items that may be of interest submission. Contact details can be to them. • Announcements and reports of found near the front of each edition. conferences and workshops. Reprinted Articles Example papers conforming to • Reviews of publications in the While original material is our first formatting requirements as well as field of software engineering. priority, we are willing to reprint (with some word processor templates are the permission of the copyright holder) available from the editor, or at: • Announcements regarding material previously submitted www.adauk.org.uk standards concerning Ada. elsewhere if it is appropriate to give it There is no limitation on the length of a wider audience. This includes papers papers, though a paper longer than Further details on our approach to 10,000 words would be regarded as these are given below. published in North America that are not easily available in Europe. exceptional. We have a reciprocal approach in granting permission for other publications to reprint papers originally published in Ada User Journal. Volume 23, Number 1, March 2002 Ada User Journal 3 Editorial This issue is dominated by a news section containing many important announcements and discussions. From Ada tools, Ada resources through to Ada publications, many interesting news postings have been summarised by the News Editor, Dirk Craeynest. The Forthcoming Events section contains details of the forthcoming Ada-Europe 2002 conference. Invited speakers include Maarten Boasson, Alois Ferscha, Rachid Guerraoui and Mehdi Jazayeri. Tutorial sessions are prominent in the conference, including sessions on software design and patterns in Ada, SPARK Ada, software testing and metrics. The section also includes calls for papers for the Ada UK / Embedded Systems Club Autumn Conference and the SIGAda 2002 conference. Finally, I draw your attention to the change in the production of Ada User Journal. From this issue onwards, the Journal is being produced wholly by Ada-Europe. Apart from obvious changes to the cover, contacts and Editorial Policy, the impact to the production and contents of the Journal will be minimal. Neil Audsley York March 2002 Email: [email protected] Ada User Journal Volume 23, Number 1, March 2002 5 News Dirk Craeynest (ed) Offis nv/sa and K U Leuven. Email [email protected] Organization: The MITRE Corporation Hampton, VA. This data center is a Contents Subject: DC SIGAda Presentation on scientific digital library that is currently page Thursday 10 Jan 2002 processing, archiving, and distributing Ada-related Events 5 To: [email protected] about 3 TB/month of data from two Ada Semantic Interface instruments on the NASA Terra Specification (ASIS) 7 [...] Thursday, 10 January 2002, 7:30 P.M. (Refreshments and Social at 7:00 Spacecraft, in addition to archiving and Ada and Education 7 distributing data from many other data Ada-related Resources 8 P.M.) at the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Rockville, Maryland. DC sources. Dr. Barkstrom has been actively Ada-related Tools 9 engaged in work on NASA's Earth Ada-related Products 19 SIGAda and Baltimore SIGAda will feature a presentation titled: Observing System's Data and Information Ada and Linux 28 System (EOSDIS) over the last decade, Ada and Microsoft 28 Ada 95 Bindings for the Hierarchical receiving a NASA Exceptional References to Publications 30 Data Format (HDF) Used for NASA's Achievement Medal for his contributions Java 33 Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and to the system architecture and cost Ada Inside 34 Information System (EOSDIS) modeling for this system. [...] Ada in Context 38 This presentation describes Ada95 Jeff Castellow, Chair, DC SIGAda bindings for HDF4 and HDF5, the Ada-related Events current versions of the National Feb 12 - Baltimore SIGAda Computational Sciences Alliance Meeting on Fun with Ada [To give an idea about the many Ada- (NCSA) Hierarchical Data Format related events organized by local groups, (HDF). These self-describing file From: "Kester, Rush W." some announcements are included here. formats are intended for storage of large, <[email protected]> If you are organizing such an event feel diverse collections of scientific data and Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:02:08 -0500 free to inform us as soon as possible, or if for retrieving subsets of these data. The Subject: Balt/DC ACM chapters Working you attended one please consider writing libraries also support data compression, with Laurel On-Line a small report for the Ada User Journal. -- chunking of large arrays, and automatic To: [email protected] dc] conversion of vendor-specific binary formats for a variety of data types. My name is Rush Kester, I'm a Software Systems Engineer at Johns Hopkins Dec 4 - Journée Ada-France HDF files are intended to provide self Applied Physics Lab in Laurel. I have documenting storage of scientific data. From: Lionel Draghi spoken to most SIGAda 2000 attendees This means that HDF provides structures and many Team-Ada members in the past <[email protected]> that allow the file format to contain data Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:22:13 +0100 about a project to work with area High about the file structure and descriptive School students, sponsored by the Balt Subject: [Annonce] Journée Ada-France information about the data contained in Newsgroups: fr.comp.lang.ada and DC Chapters of Association of the file. By reading an appropriate Computing Machinery's Special Interest [Extracts translated from French: -- dc] sequence of data structures in the file, a Group on Ada (ACM SIGAda). data user can extract the information You are cordially invited to the "Journée needed to understand the kind of data in The project uses fun/affordable stuff like Ada-France" which will take place on the file, the size, shape, and data type of LEGO Mindstorms robots, model trains, Tuesday December 4th at the université the arrays in the file, and even games, RC cars, etc. to get students Paris VI. documentation about the file contents. interested in Software Engineering in [Program:] particular "Real-Time Software HDF is becoming widely used in Engineering." See our website at: - "Le point sur Ada 0Y", by J.P. Rosen scientific data holdings, such as those of http://www.adapower.com/lab/ - "Ada-Europe'2003 in Toulouse", by A.