HIGHLIGHTS of March 1995 ASISWG Meeting


From 6-8 March 1995,  ASISWG met at Harris Computer Systems in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. Highlights from this meeting include =>

1.  A formal tracking system was established to track ASIS issues to
support Ada95. Comments are to be submitted to
asis-comment@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us using a format similar to that
for comments to Ada95.

2.  Steve Blake had submitted 2 proposals for changes to the ASIS
specification for Ada83 in order to evolve the specification to support
Ada95. These proposals were approved and used to establish our baseline
for Ada95. The proposals were entered as the first two issues in the
new tracking system as:
 
     Issue 001  Proposed ASIS95 Element_Kind Type Hierarchy
     Issue 002  Proposed change to ASIS83 to produce ASIS95 draft standard

3.  A mechanism was established to track unresolved ASIS83 issues and
convert them to ASIS95 issues.

4.  Plans are being made to discuss ISO standardization options for
ASIS95 at the WG9 meeting in April. An identified approach is to
develop a separate ASIS standard for Ada95 and eventually integrate the
ASIS standard as an annex to the Ada ISO/IEC 8652 standard.

5.  A number of addditional issues are still to be resolved. A
significant issue is associated with the changed library concept for
Ada 95 as identified by Serge Rybin [Issue 004].

6.  Besides numerous U.S. ASIS activities, we were pleased to note ASIS
activities on the net from Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Russia, and the
U.K. We were very excited about the University of Moscow implementation
of ASIS for the GNAT Ada 95 compiler. We understand this implementation
will be completed in the fall of 1995.

7.  There will be several substantial changes made to the organization
of ASIS information on the sw-eng.falls-church.va.us host. The ASIS
information is in the /public/AdaIC/work-grp/asiswg directory. Please
allow at least one more week for the necessary changes to be
accomplished. A follow on email will be submitted when things have
settled down.

8.  ASIS abstractions in the form of a Program View Layer (PVL) will
soon be available. This will make the ASIS interface significantly more
powerful.

I would like to thank Dan Rittersdorf and Harris Computer Systems for
hosting a very productive ASISWG meeting. The next meeting will be held
in conjunction with WAdaS'95 on 26-27 June in McLean, Virginia.
 
v/r
Currie Colket
Chairman, Ada Semantic Interface Specification Working Group (ASISWG)
colket@smtp-gw.spawar.navy.mil
colket@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us
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