The latest Mixed Programming with Ada lectures at the AdaCore University
by Martyn Pike –
I recently joined AdaCore as a Technical Account Manager with an initial focus on the UK and Scandinavian regions, but for the last 12 months I've been busy working on the AdaCore University. The most recent addition to which is a course on Mixed Language Programming with Ada, and it includes lectures on the integration of Ada with C, C++ and Java. The course covers some advanced topics like mixed language object orientation, techniques for using Ada strong typing to combat known issue with C pointers and the pitfalls that are encountered when mixing native Ada code with Java at runtime. This course clearly demonstrates that Ada has strong support for integration with C, C++ and Java and it proves there are no technical barriers to its adoption in modern mixed language software systems.
About Martyn Pike
Martyn is a member of the AdaCore Business Development team and is based in the United Kingdom. His role is to architect tooling and services solutions for Ada, C/C++ and model based software development environments. Before Martyn joined AdaCore, he was a consultant software engineer to the UK Aerospace and Defence industry for 10 years. Prior to being a consultant, Martyn worked for Mentor Graphics as a software development tools application engineer. Martyn holds a Bachelors Degree with Honours in Computing from Oxford Brookes University.