Pointers to Ada related information and events

An enormous amount of Ada related information is available on the Internet.

• User groups
  There are user groups all over the world, among others
  • the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization for those in or close to Belgium;
  • the Ada-Europe international non-profit organization, grouping European national member organizations as well as direct members;
  • ACM's Special Interest Group in Ada (SIGAda).
  For a more complete overview see a list with other Ada organizations.

• Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.ada
  An important discussion forum is the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.ada where a many post messages and answer questions. Participants range from beginners to Ada experts who participate in the continuous evolution of the Ada programming language.

• AdaIC: Ada Information Clearinghouse
  The first place for all Ada-related information, standards, reference material, pointers to other sites, etc., is the AdaIC server

• GNAT: Open Source GNU Ada Compiler and Toolset
  The "main site" for the distribution of the Open Source GNU Ada Compiler (GNAT)

• GAP: the GNAT Academic Program
  Ada is the right choice for courses in elementary programming, data structures, software engineering and for more advanced courses in compiler construction, real-time systems, embedded systems, parallelism and distribution, etc. To encourage the use of Ada in academia, AdaCore created the GNAT Academic Program. They provide the community with the GAP Package; a comprehensive toolset and support package designed to give educators the tools they need to teach Ada.

• SPARKAda Academic Support Program
  To show the benefits of SPARK in teaching software verification, design-by-contract™, real-time, and high-integrity software engineering, Praxis High Integrity Systems created the SPARKAda Academic Support Program. The fully supported professional SPARK toolset is made available free-of-charge to university faculty members for teaching and/or research.

• Ada Conformity Assessment Authority
  The site for who wants to follow the evolution of the Ada standard is the Ada Conformity Assessment Authority, with among others the status of all s.c. "Ada Issues", detailed minutes of meetings, etc.

• ISO/IEC JTC1/TC22/WG9: working group on Ada standards
  A more "official" site is the ISO/IEC working group on Ada standards who evaluates the work described on the previous site, and needs to approve it in order to update the ISO standard for Ada.

• Conferences and other events world-wide
  Several announcements of conferences and events that may be of interest for the global Ada community, are being posted to mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and are available here.

• Ada-Belgium Archive
  This Belgian Ada archive contains local material and a selection of the most requested items from other servers. It also archives material that is no longer readily available, such as for example the GNAT 3.15p distribution.

• Free Ada Software provided by Belgian Ada users
  (Pointers to) free Ada software made available by Belgian Ada users.

• Ada Education and Training
  Information on Ada education and training in or near Belgium, and pointers to other sources that can be consulted.

• Ada Job Announcements
  Ada-related jobs in or near Belgium, or from Belgian companies.

• Ada Picture Gallery and Quote Collection
  Also less serious material, such as an Ada Picture Gallery and Dirk's Quote Collection, is available.

• AdaPower: Ada Developer Resources and Tools
  Another interesting starting point for Web browsing on Ada is AdaPower.com

• PAL: Public Ada Library
  Probably the largest collection of Ada-related software and documents was available in the Public Ada Library at the Washington University Archive in the USA (WUarchive), or via the CDROM distribution by Walnut Creek CDROM (USA). A partial mirror of the Public Ada Library is still available through the Ada-Belgium Archive.

• ASE2: Ada and Software Engineering Library Version 2
  The PAL was later updated and a disk copy of the final version is available via Ada-Belgium's ftp-archive. See the Ada and Software Engineering Library Version 2 (ASE2) Card Catalog as a convenient starting point.

• Ada in Action - book in several formats
  The book "Ada in Action (With Practical Programming Examples)" by Do-While Jones is out of print since some time, and a second edition (1995) is made available via FTP by the author. In agreement with Do-While Jones, volunteers converted it to several formats, and Ada-Belgium offered them the space to make copies available on this server.

• The rest of this page hasn't been systematically updated in a long time and hence might contain some outdated information and links.

• Ada Success Stories
  A collection of Ada Success Stories with information about how Ada has been used in a variety of (mostly) non-military applications.

• Ada Home: Home of the Brave Ada Programmers (HBAP)
  For a long time the most comprehensive Ada-related Web site has been the Ada Home Web Server (no longer maintained), formerly at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Although unfortunately no longer actively maintained, it still hosts a lot of information.

• Reference Manuals and Tutorial
  The hypertext Ada 83 LRM (on this server), the hypertext Ada 95 Reference Manual (ISO/IEC 8652:1995), the hypertext Ada 95 Rationale, and the free self-directed Ada tutorial Lovelace can be consulted. You can down-load all of this for local browsing, either from the mirror on the Ada-Belgium FTP-server or from the original distribution directory.

• Ada for the Web
  ACM SIGAda dedicated a web-site to promoting the use of Ada 95 as a major language for programming Web and Internet applets and applications, servers and browsers. The Java technology is developed by Sun Microsystems for constructing Web-based applications. Syntactically similar to C++, Java language is semantically much closer to Ada 95. Intermetrics offers the option to develop Java applets in Ada 95 and translate them to Java Bytecodes, making Ada 95 compatible with Java and Java-capable browsers. Another Ada and WWW/Java page is in the "Resources for Ada" section of the Ada Home.

• Ada Resources for Educators and Students
  This web site is created and maintained at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, with partial funding from ACM SIGAda.

• Lots of Pointers
  Still here is an old page (in need of an update) with pointers to useful Ada information.

To the Ada-Belgium home page.

Last update: 2007/02/24.
First version extracted from Ada-Belgium home page: 2004/01/27.