The Walnut Creek Ada CDROM (November 1998 Edition)

If you plan to attend SIGAda'98 on November 8-12 or Ada-Belgium'98 on December 04, this is the double Ada CDROM you will receive for free there.

The following overview was provided by Rick Conn, editor of the CDROM. Similar information is also available on http://www.cdrom.com/titles/prog/ada.htm

Ada and Software Engineering CDROM
Revision 2, 1 Oct 1998
Richard Conn

Title: "Ada and Software Engineering (ASE)"

Description: "A Resource for the Practicing Software Engineer (regardless of implementation language) and the Practicing Ada Developer"

Date: "November 1998"

Credits: "Richard Conn, Editor"

Note: "Release of this CDROM is timed to support:

• the SIGAda '98 Conference
• the Ada-Belgium '98 Conference
• the 1999 DoD Software Technology Conference
• the 1999 ACM Computer Science Education Conference
• the Spring COMDEX Conference"

Note: "ASE Card Catalog is Powered by GWRL - Generic Web-based Reuse Library - written in Ada95 and HTML"

Usage Note: "Windows 95/98 Autoload is in effect"
Usage Note: "This CDROM can be browsed using a Web browser of your choice. Start with the file 'index.htm' at the top level of either disc."
Usage Note: "This CDROM is conforms to ISO-9660 with Rock Ridge Extensions and the Windows 95/98 Joliet File System. It can be read on over 40 platforms, including Windows 95/98, Windows NT, and various UNIX platforms."

"The combined contributions of hundreds of authors have gone into the making of the Ada and Software Engineering (ASE) CDROM. These authors are acknowledge in their associated ASE Card Catalog entires.
"The editor wishes to specifically thank the following people for their support in the creation of this product:

• The Honorable Emmett Paige, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
• Susanne Peterson, Microsoft
• Hal Hart, TRW and ACM/SIGAda, and the SIGAda Officers
• Martin Carlisle, United States Air Force Academy
• Currie Colkett (ARA) and Clyde Roby (IDA), ASIS Working Group
• Dirk Craeynest, Ada Belgium
• Magnus Kempe (Kempe Software Capital Enterprises), Ada Home Page (Switzerland)
• Mike Feldman (George Washington University), SIGAda Education
• Raj Patel, Lillian Hertel, and Sudhir Shah (Lockheed Martin), my bosses in my "real" job for letting me run this project

"Members of the Software Engineering and Ada communities should not be without this library! With over 1G Bytes of documentation, information, web site indexes, Ada source code, and both general-purpose and Ada-oriented tools, this two-disc set is a valuable resource that addresses a wide variety of contemporary issues in Software Engineering."

• For the Practicing Software Engineer:
  • Best practices in Software Engineering
  • Index of useful web sites (with hyperlinks to them directly from the CDROM)
  • Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model
  • Hundreds of documents and tutorials on various topics in Software Engineering, including Domain Engineering, Reuse, Requirements, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Devleopment Methodologies (Waterfall, Spiral, Rapid Application Development), Formal Methods, Cleanroom, Complexity Analysis, Metrics, Capability Maturity, Six Sigma
  • General-purpose tools (such as GRASP - Graphical Representation of Algorithms, Structures, and Processes - for Ada, C, C++, Java, and VHDL from Auburn University with funding from ARPA and NASA)
  • An introduction to Ada, a language specifically designed to support the engineering of large and small software systems, including safety-critical real-time software intensive systems
• For the Practicing Ada Developer:
  • Ada95 Language Reference Manual and Rationale in Hypertext
  • Index of useful web sites (with hyperlinks to them directly from the CDROM)
  • Freeware Ada95 compilers and development environments for a variety of platforms, including Windows 95/98/NT and UNIX (such as GNAT Ada95 and C environment from Ada Core Technologies and ObjectAda from Aonix)
  • Freeware Software components and tools
  • Ada Semantic Interface Specification (ASIS)
  • Support for Ada95 education, including tutorials and freeware tools (such as AdaGIDE from the United States Air Force Academy)
  • Ada Advocacy material - why Ada is the preferred language for Software Engineering
  • Ada background and historical information, user and developer notes, grapical icons, and other items of interest for the Ada enthusiast

To the Ada-Belgium home page. To the Ada-Belgium'98 Home Page.

Last update: 1998/11/24.