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Luis Miguel Pinho, Francisco Vasques
7th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2002, Vienna, Austria, June, 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, nº 2361, Springer, pp. 297-308.
June 2002 [abstract]

This paper proposes an environment intended for the development of fault-tolerant real-time Ada 95 applications conforming to the Ravenscar profile. This environment is based on the transparent replication of application components, and it provides a set of generic task interaction objects, which are used as the basic building blocks of the supported applications. These objects provide the usual task interaction mechanisms used in hard real-time applications, and allow applications to be developed without considering replication and distribution issues.

Luis Miguel Pinho, Francisco Vasques
ACM Ada Letters, Vol 19, No 4, December 1999, pp 37-43.
December 1999 [pdf]

Ada is really an unfortunate Lady. After years fighting against C/C++ villains, her major lift-up (Ada 95) had brought up a promise of fortune. However, a new strong villain (Java) has appeared trying to end her struggle for approval. Ada has now to fight with its own weapons. She will only succeed by her own merit. But the question is, do they exist? Are they fitted to Real-Time Systems? We think that they do exist, and that they are more than suitable to Real-Time Systems programming.