Revised 30 September 2001

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                            CHARTER OF ASISWG

The purpose of this working group is to evolve 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) and any tool
requiring information from it.  An Ada environment includes valuable
semantic and syntactic information.  ASIS is an open and published
callable interface that 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 cooperated with the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 WG9 ASIS
Rapporteur Group (ASISRG) in adopting ASIS as an international
standard.  The ASISWG is now focused on evolving this interface to
satisfy better the needs of the ASIS community and to encourage the
development of ASIS-based tools.

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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