Boeing Selects Aonix ObjectAda for Tomahawk Cruise Missile Mission Planning Software
Product maturity, vendor responsiveness, and new capabilities cited as key selection criteria
Aug 28, 2006 - 18:43 PM
Facing legacy obsolescence and diminishing support for their existing Ada development environment, Boeing’s TMP group initiated a full-scale evaluation of available Ada compiler and tool solutions. Their challenge was to find an Ada vendor with compiler technology able to support a very large Ada source code base, meet stringent performance and functionality requirements, and efficiently support a large software development team. In order to port a large code base without requiring a large investment of new engineering resources, Boeing’s TMP group needed a multilanguage development environment to accommodate existing C, Fortran, and .NET software assets.
“Aonix rose to all the challenges we laid out,” noted Dan Turpin, TMP Systems Engineer. “They accommodated specific requirements critical to our success, such as performing specific debugger and compiler performance improvements that we needed.”
Similarly, Ben Ralston, TMP’s compiler technical evaluator, stated, “As an engineer, I realize it was no small feat to accomplish technical changes of this magnitude to their compiler, especially in such a short time frame. Aonix met all of our objectives.”
The Aonix ObjectAda for Windows brings the improvements of ObjectAda 8.2 to the Windows development platform. In integrating current Windows improvements with the Aonix Ada 95 compiler, Aonix has delivered enhancements to the object code and symbolic debugging information generation and provided full compatibility with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 development tools. Recognizing the growing number of large-scale Ada projects, ObjectAda 8.2 for Windows offers dramatic performance improvements for developers linking executable files or initiating debugging sessions for large programs.
ObjectAda for Windows 8.2 includes the comprehensive Ada libraries needed for calling Windows Win32 and the Visual C++ .NET 2003 MFC interfaces from application source code written in Ada. In ObjectAda for Windows, these Ada binding libraries are fully compatible with the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 tools and libraries.
As part of the ObjectAda 8.2 family, ObjectAda for Windows allows developers to choose between the traditional Aonix IDE for development and the new AonixADT™ Eclipse plug-in. AonixADT incorporates Ada-project awareness, an Ada-language sensitive editor, Ada-language compile and build capabilities, and a complete Ada debugger interface, enabling Ada developers to enjoy state-of-the-art interface capabilities geared to maximize developer ease and efficiency.
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