AdaCore Introducing New Version of GNAT Programming Studio IDE.GPS 4.2 adds new code coverage and documentation generation features FAIRFAX, Va. -- AdaCore, provider of the highest quality Ada tools and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , today announced the upcoming release of GNAT Programming Studio GNAT Programming Studio (GPS, formerly known as the GNAT Programming System) is a free multi-language integrated development environment (IDE) by AdaCore. GPS uses compilers from the GNU Compiler Collection, taking its name from GNAT, the GNU compiler for the Ada (GPS) 4.2. This Ada-oriented IDE (Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment ) accompanies AdaCore's 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 toolset on most platforms. With an emphasis on helping developers improve the quality and maintainability of their software, this GPS release includes a number of new features, enhancements, and plug-ins, including support for code coverage and improved generation of documentation. The advanced code coverage feature enables developers to test code and ensure that the software is properly covered, with the GPS user interface allowing them to visualize the coverage information at different levels of detail (from project down to source lines of code Source lines of code (SLOC) is a software metric used to measure the size of a software program by counting the number of lines in the text of the program's source code. ). The improved and faster documentation generator A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers (API documentation) or end users (End-user Guide), or both, from a set of specially commented source code files, and in some cases, binary files. uses Web 2.0 technologies to generate HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. pages, thus providing a web-based view of projects. "As software complexity increases, developers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an environment to help them create high quality code that is straightforward to produce and understand," commented Arnaud Charlet, GPS Project Manager at AdaCore. "GPS 4.2 delivers these capabilities. With its many enhancements based on customer feedback, it continues to be the environment of choice for professional Ada development." While GPS already supports the Ada 2005 standard, the GPS 4.2 enhancements will help developers take full advantage of both the new features as well as the existing Ada 95 object-oriented programming object-oriented programming, a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the facilities. Furthermore, GPS includes multi-language support (including Ada, C, and C++) and is available on a wide range of host environments. Through its intuitive, unified visual interface, developers can access tools from both AdaCore and third parties, easing both development and maintenance. New functions in GPS 4.2 include: [TABLE OMITTED] As with all GNAT Pro components, GPS is distributed with full source code and is backed by AdaCore's rapid and expert online support. About GPS GPS is a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) written in Ada, based on the GtkAda toolkit. GPS' extensive source-code navigation and analysis tools can generate a broad range of useful information, including call graphs, source dependencies, project organization, and complexity metrics. It also provides support for configuration management through an interface to third-party Version Control Systems, and supports a variety of platforms, including Altix Linux, IA64 HP Linux, Solaris (sparc and x86), GNU/Linux (x86 and x86-64), and x86 Windows (2000, 2003, XP and Vista). GPS is highly extensible; a simple scripting approach enables additional tool integration. It is also customizable, allowing programmers to specialize various aspects of the program's appearance in the editor for a user-specified look and feel. Pricing and Availability GPS 4.2 is scheduled for release at the beginning of December 2007, when it will be available to GNAT Pro customers on selected platforms. GPS is included with the GNAT Pro Ada Development Environment. Please contact AdaCore (sales@adacore.com) for the latest information on pricing and supported configurations. 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 safety, security, and reliability are critical. AdaCore's flagship product is the GNAT Pro development environment, which comes with expert on-line support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has an extensive worldwide customer base; see http://www.adacore.com/home/company/customers/ for further information. Ada and GNAT Pro continue to see growing usage in high-integrity and safety-certified applications, including commercial aircraft avionics, military systems, air traffic management/control, railroad systems, and medical devices, and in security-sensitive domains such as financial services. 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 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 and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com |
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