Paper Info
Title
Programming the Internet in Ada 95
Abstract
A new paradigm for computing is emerging based on the Internet and the World Wide Web, accompanied by a new standard programming platform based on the Java(tm) technology recently announced by Sun Microsystems [4]. The Java technology includes the definition for a platform-independent byte code representation for small applications called applets, which allows Java-enabled Web browsers to download and execute these Java applets using a byte code interpreter. Although the Java byte-code representation was designed specifically for the new Java language, it turns out that the underlying semantic models of Ada 95 and Java are sufficiently similar that a very direct mapping from Ada 95 to Java byte codes is possible. We at Intermetrics are in the process of adapting our Ada 95 compiler front end to generate Java byte codes directly, thereby allowing the development of Java-compatible applets in Ada 95. This paper explains our approach, and provides details on the mapping from Ada 95 features to Java byte codes, as well as the mapping from certain Java features to Ada 95. We have found the combination of the Ada 95 and Java technologies to be very natural and powerful, providing the best characteristics of both technologies, with essentially no loss in functionality.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1007/BFb0013475
Ada-Europe
Keywords
Field
DocType
front end,semantic model,java applet,world wide web
Programming language,Java annotation,Computer science,Java concurrency,Real time Java,strictfp,Generics in Java,Java Modeling Language,Java applet,Java
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-61317-X
16
3.53
References 
Authors
2
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Tucker Taft15014.12