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There are various source of electronic information available through the internet and via bulletin boards including:


Other Ada WWW Sites

There currently are several other WWW servers which contain information on Ada:


Ada Power.com

This is one of the most active web sites for Ada developers. It includes a multitude of resources, tools, projects, chat groups, humor, and much much more. This great site is managed by David Botton. Check it out!!

Home of the Brave Ada Programmers

This Ada WWW server is a hypertext information server to help dissiminate information about the Ada programming language. The Home of the Brave Ada Programmes is managed by Magnus Kempe. This is a great resource for Ada programmers.

Ada Information Clearinghouse Home Page

For over a decade, the Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC) has provided information and resources on Ada to the community in order to maximize the language's efficiency, cost effectiveness, and productivity.

The AdaIC is supported by the Ada Resource Association (ARA).

Available files cover topics such as Ada news and current events; Ada usage; resources for Ada education and training; software, tools and interfaces; Ada policies; historical information; standards; and available bindings.

AdaSAGE WWW Server

This server has information about what AdaSAGE is, training availability and user group information. You may also download versions of AdaSAGE through this site. All the AdaSAGE documentation in an online form will be available soon.

Public Ada Library (PAL)

The Public Ada Library is a free repository of hundreds of megabytes of Ada information. The PAL contains programs, components, tools, general information, and educational materials on Ada. There are also mailing lists which provide announcements and information on the PAL. The PAL can be reached via the World Wide Web over the Internet by clicking on the title above for the primary US site or by clicking on one of the mirror sites below.

Public Ada Library - US Mirror
The PAL US Mirror is an additional site for accessing the contents of the Public Ada Library.

Public Ada Library - European Mirror (ftp)

AdaBasis WWW Server

A library of reusable Ada Software Components

The repository consists of about 560 MB public domain source code and documents, mainly taken from the Public Ada Library (PAL). The software has been classified and is presented in a hierarchical manner, separated in different application domains, and, for some domains, with an additional multi-faceted searching facility.

Our intent is to provide students, teachers and researchers a large collection of reusable Ada components and systems for use in language and software engineering courses.

We plan to enlarge the library in the future and would welcome your free public domain contributions.

The X11/Ada 95 Programmers's Home PageFree X

Find out how to get all the software you need to do X Window programming in Ada 95--for free. Join the Free X/Ada Programming Team and help promote Ada by porting and contributing X/Ada demo programs.

Paul Pukite's Adaphile Web Site

Ada articles, bibliography, reference material, source code, and GNAT GUI packages all courtesy of Paul Pukite.

STSC

The Software Technology Support Center (STSC) was established to assist US DoD software organizations to identify, evaluate and adopt technologies that will improve the quality of their software products, their efficiency in producing them, and their ability to accurately predict the cost and schedule of their delivery. STSC's web site includes articles published in Crosstalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering.


Internet File Servers

There currently are several internet file servers containing information related to Ada including:

Public Ada Library (PAL)

The Public Ada Library is a free repository of over 100 megabytes of Ada information. The PAL contains programs, components, tools, general information, and educational materials on Ada. There are also mailing lists which provide announcements and information on the PAL. The PAL can be reached via anonymous FTP over the Internet by clicking on the title above for the primary US site or by clicking on one of the mirror sites below.

Public Ada Library - US Mirror
The PAL US Mirror is an additional site for accessing the contents of the Public Ada Library.

Public Ada Library - European Mirror
The Eurpean mirror for PAL is an addional site for accesing the contents of the PAL from Europe.

GNAT

(US mirrors: Walnut Creek CD-ROM, the PAL
European mirrors: Ada-Belgium archive , DIT UPM mirror, Univ. Berlin, CCI Germany, Denmark, IBP France, CNAM France, Norway, FSZ BMD HU, Ada UK,
Australian mirror: Canberra Univ.)

GNAT for Mac is available from Tenon as part of its MachTen CodeBuilder.

GNAT is an Ada 95 front end for the GCC compiler. GNAT Ada 95 compilers exist for the Sun Sparc workstation under Sun-OS, the IBM PC under Windows NT/95 and OS/2, the Mac, and many other platforms.

There are also several Mailing Lists associated with GNAT.


Electronic Mailing Lists

There are several internet mailing lists that are of interest to Ada practioners including the:

Info-Ada Mailing List

The Info-Ada Mailing list is an internet interest group for the dissimination of information about Ada and activities within the Ada community. Articles on the mailing list appear as digests from articles posted on the comp.lang.ada USENET news group.

To subscribe to info-ada by sending an e-mail message to:

LISTSERV at LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU

with a body containing the following one line:

SUBSCRIBE info-ada [your full name]

Here your full name is your name (at least two discrete words) and not your net address.

Team-Ada Mailing List

Team Ada is a highly informal organization dedicated to telling the world about the advantages of the Ada programming language. Most of the discussion on the mailing list is about how individuals may more effectively spread the word about Ada and its benefits. Past messages to the Team-Ada mailing list are stored in the ACM archives.

Subscribe to the Team-Ada mailing list

Ada Bindings Working Group (ABWG) Mailing List

The SIGAda Ada Bindings Working Group (ABWG) maintains four electronic mail forums for discussions on bindings. Click here for more information on ABWG and their mailing lists.

Ada Run Time Environment Working Group (ARTEWG) Mailing List

The ARTEWG, an ACM/SIGAda working group, is for the discussion of issues relating to the to Ada run-time environment. Click here for more information on the ARTEWG and their mailing lists.

Ada Semantic Interface Specification Working Group (ASISWG) Mailing List

ASIS is an interface between an Ada environment as defined by ISO/IEC 8652:1995 (the Ada Reference Manual) and any tool requiring information from this environment. The ASISWG, an ACM/SIGAda working group, is for the discussion of issues relating to ASIS. Click here for more information on the ASISWG and their mailing lists.

Reuse Working Group (ReuseWG) Mailing List

The Reuse Working Group is an ACM SIGAda working group established to provide a forum dissemination of information and discussion on software reuse. Click here for more information on ReuseWG and their mailing lists.

Performance Issues Working Group (PIWG) Mailing List

The PIWG has developed the widely distributed benchmark suite for assessing performance of Ada compilers, and is now developing new benchmarks for Ada 95. Click here for more information on PIWG and their mailing lists.

Public Ada Library (PAL) Mailing List

Users of the Public Ada Library are supported by three electronic distribution lists. These are PAL-ANNOUNCE which is an announcement list for PAL users, WUARCHIVE-ANNOUNCE which is an announcement list for users of WUARCHIVE and ADA-TRAIN which is a discussion list for those involved in Ada education.

To subscribe to any of these lists, send a message to: listserv at wunet.wustl.edu. Leave the subject line black and place the following line into the body of the message:

SUBSCRIBE <list name>

where list name is PAL-ANNOUNCE, WUARCHIVE-ANNOUNCE, or ADA-TRAIN.

GNAT Mailing List

GNAT is an Ada 95 front end for the GCC compiler. Free Ada 95 compilers exist for the Sun Sparc workstation under Sun-OS, the IBM PC under OS/2 and many other platforms.

Bugs or other problem reports for the current version of GNAT should be sent to report at gnat.com
Those interested in paying for commercial support should write to support at gnat.com. A mailing list for chatting among Gnat users also exists.To subscribe to Gnat Chat, send e-mail to chat-request at gnat.com. To subscribe to the mailing list, simply send a message with the word "subscribe"in the Subject: field to the chat-request address of that list.

X-Windows and Ada Mailing List

For X windows and Ada programming, send mail to x-ada-request at expo.lcs.mit.edu with a the body of the message containing the line: SUBSCRIBE

Ada-Belgium Mailing Lists

Ada-Belgium has two e-mail lists:

Send an empty message with "Subject: help" for more information. The announcements posted to the information list are also posted to the discussion list.

If you have some announcements that may be of interest for the Ada community in Belgium, feel free to forward it to ada-belgium-info-owner at cs.kuleuven.ac.be, and it will be posted to the mailing list if appropriate.


Google Groups

The following newsgroups are of interest to Ada practioners:

comp.lang.ada
The comp.lang.ada group on Google fosters discussions ranging from the finer points of Ada programming to debates over policy.

comp.sw.components
The comp.sw.components group on Google features discussion on software component technology and reuse.

comp.object
The comp.object group on Google features discussion on object-oriented programming and languages.

comp.software-eng
The comp.software-eng group on Google features discussion on software engineering and related topics.

comp.edu
The comp.edu group on Google features discussion on computer science education.

news.answers
The news.answers group on Google is a repository for periodic USENET articles.

If you cannot access these newsgroups by clicking on the above links, then either:

  1. Your browser is not configured correctly to point to your local news server or
  2. You do not have news available at your site

In order to correct either of these problems, you should contact your system administrator for help in accessing USENET newsgroups.


Last Update: 8 August 2016