Ada Resource Association

Atego has entered into an agreement with International Business Machines Corporation to acquire the IBM Rational Apex® Ada Developer product family, including the IBM Rational Apex integrated development environment. Atego will acquire the Rational Ada Developer product line, including all products and intellectual property. The IBM development and support staff responsible for IBM Rational Ada Developer will join Atego. Atego will rebrand the product family to’ Atego ApexAda Developer’ and the core IDE product ‘Rational Apex’ to ‘Atego Apex’.

SmartSide has adopted the Ada programming language and GNAT Pro for the implementation of their Smart Devices platform. SmartSide provides Smart Metering and Smart Grid management solutions which are used to optimize Smart Grid networks.

Saab Electronic Defence Systems (Sweden) has adopted the CodePeer static analyzer tool for use on the GIRAFFE project.

Language revision adds contract-based programming, multicore support, and other advanced features

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, June 12, 2012 – At the Ada-Europe 2012 conference in Stockholm , the Ada Resource Association (ARA) and Ada-Europe today announced the completion of the design of the latest version of the Ada programming language and the submission of the reference manual to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for approval. The language revision, known as Ada 2012, is under the auspices of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 and was conducted by the Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG) subunit of WG9, with sponsorship in part from the ARA and Ada-Europe.

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Open-source research projects combine model-based integration and qualified code generation for safety-critical systems

Full support for the upcoming Ada 2012 language standard

Ada expert Tucker Taft joining AdaCore as Director of Language Research

GPS 5.1 Integrated Development Environment brings new C/C++ features, improved support for CodePeer, and more powerful source editing

Digicomp Research has reaffirmed their commitment to Ada based on their continuing success with the language, by renewing their long-standing subscription for the GNAT Pro Ada development environment.

With the LDRA announcement of being able to test software for Homeland Security’s CWE compatibility standard, LDRA’s leadership in the security sector has been recognized by Military Embedded Systems.