AdaCore Brings Industry Leading Ada Expertise to the Eclipse Foundation.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- AdaCore, provider of the highest quality Ada tools and services, today announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a as an Add-In-Provider. This membership level allows AdaCore to participate in the development of the Eclipse ecosystem, and to offer the breadth of their Ada expertise to the Eclipse community as a whole. Eclipse is an important part of AdaCore's corporate and product strategy. The company tapped into the growing popularity of the Eclipse framework early on, adding an Eclipse plug-in to the company's comprehensive GNAT gnat, common name for any one of a number of small, fragile-looking two-winged flies of the suborder Nematocera, order Diptera, which includes the families Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Chironomidae (true midges), Pro Ada tool-suite last year. And the company continues to provide customers with the latest technology available with the recent major upgrade to its GNATbench plug-in, offering new capabilities to support Eclipse 3.2, the latest version of the popular open source platform for integrating software tools for application development. "We feel that the Eclipse Foundation and its open source emphasis perfectly match the Free Software concept that AdaCore has embraced with our GNAT Pro Ada development environment," said Robert Dewar, President of AdaCore. "By joining Eclipse, AdaCore is now able to contribute to another valuable open source community with our Ada-aware, Eclipse-based GNATbench product line." "Eclipse welcomes new Add-In-Provider member AdaCore to the foundation," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. "AdaCore supports a wide range of native and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. platforms for Ada language development. We look forward to contributions from AdaCore's industry-leading Ada experts to enhance the Eclipse effort and provide improved usability and power for all Ada language users." "As a fellow Eclipse member, we are pleased to have AdaCore bring their Ada expertise to the Eclipse Foundation," said Robert Day Robert Day (1836-1914) was an Irish antiquarian and photographer. Biography Day was involved in his family's extensive saddlery business together with a sports shop well known to Cork anglers. , Vice President of Marketing for LynuxWorks, and Chairman of the Eclipse Embedded Workgroup. "AdaCore's Eclipse-based GNATbench will add new Ada capabilities to the Eclipse framework in general and we will be validating it within our Luminosity luminosity, in astronomy, the rate at which energy of all types is radiated by an object in all directions. A star's luminosity depends on its size and its temperature, varying as the square of the radius and the fourth power of the absolute surface temperature. product. The latter is an example of the immediate benefit to the software community when new capabilities are added to the powerful Eclipse framework." "Wind River is an Eclipse Strategic Developer and leader of the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP DSDP Deep-Sea Drilling Project DSDP Deflect, Segment and Drop Policy (IEEE) ) top-level project," said Rob Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager of Wind River's Aerospace and Defense Business. "As a Wind River strategic partner and fellow Eclipse Foundation member, we are extremely pleased to have AdaCore add their expertise and products to the Eclipse framework. This step will enhance Ada capabilities within the framework and is an excellent example of how the core principles behind the Eclipse framework can provide immediate benefit for software tools suppliers and software developers alike. With AdaCore now a member of the Eclipse foundation these capabilities will only grow more powerful for our common users and the Eclipse community at large." About GNATbench GNATbench extends the basic Eclipse text editor to support sophisticated Ada-aware editing and browsing, supports Ada-aware debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. with the Eclipse debugger Software that helps a programmer debug a program by stopping at certain breakpoints and displaying various programming elements. The programmer can step through source code statements one at a time while the corresponding machine instructions are being executed. , and adds code generation using GNAT Pro for building systems in Ada and any of the other languages supported by Eclipse. The editor provides a code browsing capability to facilitate program comprehension Program comprehension is a domain of computing science dealing with the processes (cognitive or others) used by software engineers to understand programs (during their evaluation, before their modification). Program comprehension is also known as program understanding. and development. Since GNATbench treats any name as a hyperlink it makes code traversal easier. A more global approach involves selecting a given entity so that all its references are displayed in a search results window. Selecting one of these references then brings up the corresponding file. GNATbench provides a full Ada perspective, automatic code completion (after the dot in unit names or record object names), Ada package body generation from existing specifications, Ada project support and many other capabilities. GNATbench provides full Ada language support with the common look and feel expected by Eclipse developers. GNATbench is available for most AdaCore-supported GNAT Pro platforms. These include the Native, Embedded and High Integrity Edition safety critical product lines, providing the largest number of supported Ada platforms available from a single vendor today. These are now all now available with the powerful GNATbench Eclipse IDE. About the Eclipse Foundation Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects The following is a list of notable projects and plugins for the Eclipse IDE. Official Eclipse projects These projects are maintained by the Eclipse community and hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. . Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org. About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are critical. AdaCore's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is GNAT Pro, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see http://www.adacore.com/home/company/customers/ for more information. Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow, especially in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics avionics (ā'vēŏn`ĭks), electronic instruments used in air or space flight; also the design and production of such instruments. Early planes had few instruments, but as aviation and aircraft became more complex, so did instrumentation. , air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and medical devices. AdaCore has North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com |
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