ESTS0171: ADASAGE, ADA Application Development System

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ESTS0171 ADASAGE3.1. (Abstract last modified 13-JUN-2001)

ADASAGE, ADA Application Development System

Abstract Table of Contents:

1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM - ADASAGE3.1, Ada application
development system.

2. COMPUTER FOR WHICH PROGRAM IS DESIGNED AND OTHER MACHINE VERSION PACKAGES AVAILABLE -

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Program-name Package-ID Status ADASAGE3.1 ESTS0171/01 Arrived

Machines used: Package-ID Orig.Computer Test Computer ESTS0171/01 IBM PC

3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION - ADASAGE is an application development system designed to facilitate rapid and professional construction of applications written in Ada on microcomputers. ADASAGE applications may vary in size from small to large multiprogram systems. ADASAGE consists of a collection of re-usable libraries for database management and form and report processing utilities having the following capabilities: basic universal type and function definitions; sequential file input/output; terminal and file input/output; DOS system command execution; data movement and fill; string manipulation; math libraries; bit manipulation; a relational database utility; data validation; menu form and window procedures; report generation; sort/merge, time, and date functions; sound production; editing; and index rebuilding. Each of the capabilities is integrated to allow the development of an efficient system. As an application is designed and developed, the desired ADASAGE capabilities are chosen and included along with any requirements unique to that application.

4. METHOD OF SOLUTION - All ADASAGE applications which use the database, forms (windows, menus, etc.), or reporting functions require a file with a suffix of .DFL. This file contains the database schema, the various forms and windows, and report definitions. The THOR editor is used to create and maintain the .DFL file. This editor operates on a file with the suffix .SRC and creates and edits schemas, forms, and report formats and compile the .SRC file into the .DFL file used by the application. The application will have unique requirements not satisfied by the selected utilities of ADASAGE. The code for these along with the code necessary to import and use the selected ADASAGE utilities constitutes the "programmed application". The completed application system will contain the .DFL file produced by the THOR editor, the required ADASAGE utilities, and the programmed application. During the course of normal database development and use, restructuring and/or rebuilding of database files may be required if the schema for a record is modified (new fields are added, changed, or deleted and new keys selected, etc.), or if the index file for a relation becomes damaged or is destroyed. Program REBUILD performs this task. The rebuilding process is invoked by supplying both an old .DFL file name identifying the schema definition under which the current data was written and a current .DFL file name identifying the new schema definition to which the current database must be changed. REBUILD compares the old and current schema definitions for a relation, adjusts the database files accordingly, and retags the database files with the new version so that access with the new schema is allowed. The index file for the relation is then rebuilt, and any unused space within the database files removed.

5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM - Maxima for each ADASAGE database are:
4,294,967,000 records (tuples) per record size
32,000 bytes record (tuple) size
32,000 fixed-length field (attribute size)
4,294,967,000 variable-length field (attribute) size
1,000 relations (flat files)
1,000 joined relations
1,000 views
500 fields (attributes) per relation
500 keyed fields per relation
6,550 forms (windows)
55 significant digits in a number
The user's operating system or hardware may have more stringent
limits than these.

6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME -

7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM -

8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS - The ADASAGE files were compressed using Systems Enhancement Associates' ARC software, which is included, and IBM's DOS utility BACKUP.

9. STATUS
ESTS0171/01: 13-JUN-2001 Masterfiled Arrived

10. REFERENCES  -
- Howard D. Stewart and Kenneth D. Russel:
  AdaSAGE ADA Application Development System
  EG&G Report (October 1990).
- ADASAGE, NESC No. 9441, ADASAGE Flexible Disk Cartridge
  Directories
  NESC Note 92-20 (November 5, 1991).
ESTS0171/01:
- Multi-User Sage Reference Manual
  MULTI-REF (August 1990)
- Generic RApid Prototyping Language - GRAPL
  User Manual
  GRAPL (October 1990)
- Note on FOREWORD
  FORWORD (October 1990)
- DOCUPROC report
  DOCUPROC.RPT (November 1990)
- APPENDIX A - Sample Reports
  APPENDA
- APPENDIX A - SQL Tests/Samples Listings
  APPA.SQL
- ADVANCED ADA Report
  ADVADA (February 1990)

11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS - ADASAGE requires an IBM PC compatible 80286 or 80386 machine with at least 4 Mbytes RAM, a math coprocessor, and a fixed disk drive. The ADASAGE library requires 6.5 Mbytes of disk storage.

12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED -
ESTS0171/01: ADA

13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED - MS-DOS 3.1.

14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS - The
Alsys Ada 4.33 compiler is required. Earlier releases of ADA (i.e., 4.2, 4.23, etc.) are incompatible with ADASAGE3.1. The ADASAGE reference documents are written in ARC format and, when extracted, must be printed with WordPerfect.

15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS -
M. Taylor, K. Russell, and H. Stewart
EG&G Idaho Inc., U.S.A.

16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE -
ESTS0171/01:
SAGEDOC.ARC Compressed Archive File
README README File
INSTALL.BAT Batch File (Disk #1)
INSTALLX.BAT Batch File (Disk #1)
ARCE.COM Command for Execution
GRAPARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
SRC31ARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
LIBARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
TESTARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
INSTALL.BAT Batch File (Disk #3)
INSTALLX.BAT Batch File (Disk #3)
QBEARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
THOR.ARC Compressed Archive File
BACKUP.001 Backup File
CONTROL.001 Backup File
BACKUP.002 Backup File
CONTROL.002 Backup File
BACKUP.003 Backup File
CONTROL.003 Backup File
SAGEDOC.ARC Compressed Archive File
README README File
INSTALL.BAT Batch File (Disk #1)
INSTALLX.BAT Batch File (Disk #1)
ARCE.COM Command for Execution
GRAPARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
SRC31ARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
LIBARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
TESTARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
INSTALL.BAT Batch File (Disk #3)
INSTALLX.BAT Batch File (Disk #3)
QBEARC.ARC Compressed Archive File
THOR.ARC Compressed Archive File
BACKUP.001 Backup File
CONTROL.001 Backup File
BACKUP.002 Backup File
CONTROL.002 Backup File
BACKUP.003 Backup File
CONTROL.003 Backup File
user's guide             MULT.REF (August 1990)                     WRKPT
user's guide             GRAPL (October 1990)                       WRKPT
prog. note               FORWORD (October 1990)                     NOTPT
report                   DOCUPROC.RPT (November 1990)               REPPT
test-case data   listing APPENDA                                    DATLS
test-case data   listing APPA.SQL                                   DATLS
report                   ADVADA (February 1990)                     REPPT

17. CATEGORIES -

- M. Data Management
- P. General Mathematical and Computing System Routines

Keywords: PERSONAL COMPUTERS, PROGRAMMING, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, UTILITY ROUTINES