Revised 7 November 1995

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                            CHARTER OF ASISWG

The purpose of this working group is to develop and participate in
standardizing an implementation independent application programming
interface to retrieve information from an Ada environment.

The Ada Semantic Interface Specification (ASIS) is an interface between
an Ada environment (as defined by ISO/IEC 8652:1995) and any tool
requiring information from it.  An Ada environment includes valuable
semantic and syntactic information.  ASIS is an open and published
callable interface which gives CASE tool and application developers
access to this information.  ASIS has been designed to be independent
of underlying Ada environment implementations, thus supporting
portability of software engineering tools while relieving tool
developers from needing to understand the complexities of an Ada
environment's proprietary internal representation.

The working group is currently developing ASIS for Ada 95, and is
working towards its adoption as an international standard.  The working
group successfully developed ASIS for Ada 83, which is now complete and
in the public domain.

Membership in the working group is open to any interested party.
Members are responsible for their own expenses.  Current members
include representatives of Ada compiler implementors, CASE tool
developers, application developers, and other interested users.

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