To: Ed et al. You are absolutely correct. This way our friends, who are Macintosh users, can have an up to date Ada environment. It would also greatly facilitate porting Ada products. The capacity to build HTML or better yet XML forms would open up many markets. Hypertext makes great sense for editors. For instance, subprogram text that is common to the specification and body could be linked. This would facilitate making them match. Besides being able to quickly navigate between the specification and body, it would be elegant to open a withed package by clicking on it. Yours truly, Bob Leif, Ph.D. -----Original Message----- From: Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ed Falis Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:19 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: GUI components SNIP Ed Falis Wrote Of course, yet another option would be to learn enough about the Java APIs, and use either a bytcode generator like appletmagic, objectada and soon Gnat, or a native binding to it like Shayne Flint's AdaJNI (www.ainslie-software.com) which works with both objectada and gnat for native applications that start and call a Java VM for GUI and other capabilities (won't hurt the career prospects to learn those API's either). - Ed Falis Aonix