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SIGAda APIWG

SIGAda APIWG. Birds of a Feather Session SIGAda 2005 November 16, 2005 Geoff Smith, APIWG Chair. State of APIWG Today. Just formally approved Prototype web site. Where to go from here. What APIs are of immediate interest? APIs under active development Purpose of web site & mailing list

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SIGAda APIWG

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  1. SIGAda APIWG Birds of a Feather Session SIGAda 2005 November 16, 2005 Geoff Smith, APIWG Chair

  2. State of APIWG Today • Just formally approved • Prototype web site

  3. Where to go from here • What APIs are of immediate interest? • APIs under active development • Purpose of web site & mailing list • List everything? • … Or just APIs of interest? (No need to duplicate other sites)

  4. Quick Survey of Ada Sites • Ada World • Appears to be relatively current • Seems a little vendor-centric • ARA (adaic.org) • Rich source of info, some pointers to libraries • Ada Power • Only a year out of date • Ada Home • Hopelessly out of date?

  5. What Can APIWG Add? • Many sites already list APIs/Bindings • But little to no “value add” • Reviews (technical, usability, etc.) • What APIs are actually maintained • Encouragement

  6. Proposal • Direct attention on APIs of active interest • Encourage “private” registration • Many venues available for managing code • Create a list of “top 5” projects, based on genuine interest • Testing, completeness, usability, etc. • Encourage contributions for these (assuming APIs are open source, and owners are willing) • Highlight as potential projects for students – senior projects or capstones

  7. SIGAda APIWG Consensus from BoF Session November 16, 2005

  8. API Suggestions • Command Line Parsing and Verification (options/switches) • Regular Expressions • XML* (XML-Ada by AdaCore?) • Containers* • Also “SPARK”/FormalMethods specific • Note that Ada 2005 uses Ada 2005 features • Martin Dowie - package for Ada 95 (with limitations) – URL is http://www.martin.dowie.btinternet.co.uk/ • Picture Libraries (JPEG, TIFF, etc.) • X11 Libraries • AWS (Ada Web Server) • Interface.xxx (C#, Java) • OpenGL (ref. SIGAda 2004 paper) • GUIs (e.g. gtkAda, tk/Tcl) • Maybe there are existing tools or workarounds …

  9. Top Suggestions • Containers • Like Ada.Containers, but for Ada 95 • Maybe Directories, too • XML • Subject of last year’s APIWG BoF • XMLADA? • Improve/update existing packages/APIs • License issues need to be discussed

  10. Onward … • Discussions will continue on APIWG mail list Sigada-APIWG@listserv.acm.org http://www.acm.org/sigada/wg/apiwg

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