An overview of DOD-STD-1838A (proposed) the common APSE interface set: revision

Authors:
Robert Munck;Patricia Oberndorf;Erhard Ploedereder;Richard Thall
Affiliations:
The MITRE Corp.;Naval Ocean Systems Center;Tartan Labs.;SofTech
Venue:
SDE 3 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
Year:
1988

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Abstract

A five-year effort under the Ada Joint Program Office has developed a proposed standard for a host system interface as seen by tools running in an Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE). Standardization of this interface as DOD-STD-1838A will have a number of desirable effects for the Department of Defense, including tool portability, tool integration, data transportability, encouragement of a market in portable tools, and better programmer productivity.As the capability of tools to communicate with each other is a central requirement in APSEs, the Common APSE Interface Set (CAIS) has paid particular attention to facilitate such communication in a host-independent fashion. CAIS incorporates a well-integrated set of concepts tuned to the needs of writers and users of integrated tool sets.This paper covers several of these concepts:• the entity management system used in place of a traditional filing system,• object typing with inheritance,• process control including atomic transactions,• access control and security,• input/output methods,• support for distributed resource control, and• facilities for inter-system data transport.