Volume XXIII Number 2 June 2003

Table of Contents

Message from the Chair - Currie Colket .............................................................................................................................................1

Newsletter Information .........................................................................................................................................................................4

ACM Professional Development Centre Announcement............................................................................................................... 11

Reviewed Articles

Reusable Software Components - Trudy Levine.............................................................................................................................. 12

Automatic Prototype Generating via Optimized Object Model - Sheldon X. Liang, Lynn Zhang, Luqi.................................. 22

Real-time programming safety in Java and Ada - Bo Sanden......................................................................................................... 32

Dear Ada - Matthew Heaney ...............................................................................................................................................................47

Conference Announcements

SIGAda 2003 CFP.................................................................................................................................................................................... 53

IRTAW 2003 CFP................................................................................................................................................................................... 54

Ada Europe 2004 CFP............................................................................................................................................................................ 55

A Quarterly Publication of SIGAda,

the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada