Ada Server Faces is a framework that allows to create Web applications using the same design patterns as the Java Server Faces (See JSR 252, JSR 314, or JSR 344). The presentation pages benefit from the Facelets Web template system and the runtime takes advantages of the Ada language safety and performance.

A new release is available with several features that help writing online applications:

• Add support for Facebook and Google+ login
• Javascript support for popup and editable fields
• Added support to enable/disable mouseover effect in lists
• New EL function util:iso8601
• New component <w:autocomplete> for input text with autocompletion
• New component <w:gravatar> to render a gravatar image
• New component <w:like> to render a Facebook, Twitter or Google+ like button
• New component <w:panel> to provide collapsible div panels
• New components <w:tabView> and <w:tab> for tabs display
• New component <w:accordion> to display accordion tabs
• Add support for JSF <f:facet>, <f:convertDateTime>, <h:doctype>
• Support for the creation of Debian packages

You can try the online demonstration of the new widget components and download this new release at http://download.vacs.fr/ada-asf/ada-asf-1.0.0.tar.gz

The Ada Security library provides a security framework which allows applications to define and enforce security policies. This framework allows users to authenticate by using OpenID Authentication 2.0, OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect protocols.

The new version brings the following improvements:

• New authentication framework that supports OpenID, OpenID Connect, OAuth, Facebook login
• AWS demo for a Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Google+ authentication
• Support to extract JSON Web Token (JWT)
• Support for the creation of Debian packages

The library can be downloaded at http://download.vacs.fr/ada-security/ada-security-1.1.0.tar.gz

Ada EL is a library that implements an expression language similar to JSP and JSF Unified Expression Languages (EL). The expression language is the foundation used by Java Server Faces and Ada Server Faces to make the necessary binding between presentation pages in XML/HTML and the application code written in Java or Ada.

The presentation page uses an UEL expression to retrieve the value provided by some application object (Java or Ada). In the following expression:

#{questionInfo.question.rating}

the EL runtime will first retrieve the object registered under the name questionInfo and look for the question and then rating data members. The data value is then converted to a string.

The new release is available for download at http://download.vacs.fr/ada-el/ada-el-1.5.0.tar.gz

This version brings the following improvements:

• EL parser optimization (20% to 30% speed up)
• Support for the creation of Debian packages

Ada Utility Library is a collection of utility packages for Ada 2005. A new version is available which provides:

• Added a text and string builder
• Added date helper operations to get the start of day, week or month time
• Support XmlAda 2013
• Added Objects.Datasets to provide list beans (lists of row/column objects)
• Added support for shared library loading
• Support for the creation of Debian packages
• Update Ahven integration to 2.3
• New option -r <test> option for the unit test harness to execute a single test
• Port on FreeBSD

It has been compiled and ported on Linux, Windows, Netbsd, FreeBSD (gcc 4.6, GNAT 2013, gcc 4.7.3). You can download this new version at http://download.vacs.fr/ada-util/ada-util-1.7.0.tar.gz.

Ada Web Application is a framework to build web applications.

• AWA uses Ada Server Faces for the web framework. This framework is using several patterns from the Java world such as Java Server Faces and Java Servlets.
• AWA provides a set of ready to use and extendable modules that are common to many web application. This includes managing the login, authentication, users, permissions.
• AWA uses an Object Relational Mapping that helps in writing Ada applications on top of MySQL or SQLite databases. The ADO framework allows to map database objects into Ada records and access them easily.
• AWA is a model driven engineering framework that allows to design the application data model using UML and generate the corresponding Ada code.

The new version of AWA provides:

• New jobs plugin to manage asynchronous jobs,
• New storage plugin to manage a storage space for application documents,
• New votes plugin to allow voting on items,
• New question plugin to provide a general purpose Q&A.

AWA can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/ada-awa/downloads/list

A live demonstration of various features provided by AWA is available at http://demo.vacs.fr/atlas

Dynamo is a tool to help developers write some types of Ada Applications which use the Ada Server Faces or Ada Database Objects frameworks. Dynamo provides several commands to perform one specific task in the development process: creation of an application, generation of database model, generation of Ada model, creation of database.

The new version of Dynamo provides:

• A new command build-doc to extract some documentation from the sources,
• The generation of MySQL and SQLite schemas from UML models,
• The generation of Ada database mappings from UML models,
• The generation of Ada beans from the UML models,
• A new project template for command line tools using ADO,
• A new distribution command to merge the resource bundles.

The most important feature is probably the Ada code generation from a UML class diagram. With this, you can design the data model of an application using ArgoUML and generate the Ada model files that will be used to access the database easily through the Ada Database Objects library. The tool will also generate the SQL database schema so that everything is concistent from your UML model, to the Ada implementation and the database tables.

The short tutorial below indicates how to design a UML model with ArgoUML, generate the Ada model files, the SQL files and create the MySQL database.

The Dynamo tool is available at http://code.google.com/p/ada-gen.

To build Dynamo, you will need:

• Ada ASF 0.5.0
• Ada ADO 0.4.0
• Ada EL 1.4.2
• Ada Util 1.6.1
• XML Ada 4.x or 3.x

The Ada Database Objects is an Object Relational Mapping for the Ada05 programming language. It allows to map database objects into Ada records and access databases easily. Most of the concepts developped for ADO come from the Java Hibernate ORM. ADO supports MySQL and SQLite databases.

The new version brings:

• Support to reload query definitions,
• It optimizes session factory implementation,
• It allows to customize the MySQL database connection by using MySQL SET

This version can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/ada-ado/downloads/list.

Ada Server Faces is an Ada implementation of several Java standard web frameworks.

• The Java Servlet (JSR 315) defines the basis for a Java application to be plugged in Web servers. It standardizes the way an HTTP request and HTTP response are represented. It defines the mechanisms by which the requests and responses are passed from the Web server to the application possibly through some additional filters.
• The Java Unified Expression Language (JSR 245) is a small expression language intended to be used in Web pages. Through the expressions, functions and methods it creates the link between the Web page template and the application data identified as beans.
• The Java Server Faces (JSR 314 and JSR 344) is a component driven framework which provides a powerful mechanism for Web applications. Web pages are represented by facelet views (XHTML files) that are modelized as components when a request comes in. A lifecycle mechanism drives the request through converters and validators triggering events that are received by the application. Navigation rules define what result view must be rendered and returned.

Ada Server Faces gives to Ada developers a strong web framework which is frequently used in Java Web applications. On their hand, Java developers could benefit from the high performance that Ada brings: apart from the language, they will use the same design patterns.

The new version of Ada Server Faces is available and brings the following changes:

• The Security packages was moved in a separate project: Ada Security,
• New demo to show OAuth and Facebook API integration,
• Integrated jQuery 1.8.3 and jQuery UI 1.9.2,
• New converter to display file sizes,
• Javascript support was added for click-to-edit behavior,
• Add support for JSF session beans,
• Add support for servlet error page customization,
• Allow navigation rules to handle exceptions raised by Ada bean actions,
• Support the JSF 2.2 conditional navigation,
• New functions fn:escapeXml and fn:replace.

The new version can be downloaded on the Ada Server Faces project page. A live demo is available at http://demo.vacs.fr/demo.

Ada Security is a security framework which allows web applications to define and enforce security policies. The framework allows users to authenticate by using OpenID Authentication 2.0. Ada Security also defines a set of client methods for using the OAuth 2.0 protocol.

• A security policy manager defines and implements the set of security rules that specify how to protect the system or the resources.
• A user is authenticated in the application. Authentication can be based on OpenID or another system.
• A security context holds the contextual information that allows the security policy manager to verify that the user is allowed to access the protected resource according to the policy rules.

The Ada Security framework can be downloaded at Ada Security project page.

The framework is the core security framework used by Ada Server Faces and Ada Web Application to protect access to resources.

Ada Utility Library is a collection of utility packages for Ada 2005. A new version is available which provides:

• Support for HTTP clients (curl, AWS, ...)
• Support for REST APIs using JSON
• New operations To_JSON and From_JSON for easy object map serialization
• Added a listeners to help implementing the observer/listener design patterns
• Added support for wildcard mapping in serialization framework
• New option -d <dir> for the unit test harness to change the working directory,
• New example facebook.adb to show the REST support.

It has been compiled and ported on Linux, Windows and Netbsd (gcc 4.4, GNAT 2011, gcc 4.6.3). You can download this new version at http://code.google.com/p/ada-util/downloads/list.

Ada BFD is an Ada binding for the GNU Binutils BFD library.

It allows to read binary ELF, COFF files by using the GNU BFD. The Ada BFD library allows to:

• list and scan the ELF sections of an executable or object file,
• get the content of the ELF sections,
• get access to the symbol table,
• use the BFD disassembler

Version 1.0 of this Ada binding library is now available on Ada BFD. This new release bring the following changes:

• Fixed installation of library
• Added examples for BfdAda
• Add support to use the disassembler

Ada Web Application is a framework to build web applications easily on top of Ada Server Faces, Ada Database Objects and Ada Web Server.

The new version of the framework provides:

• A new event framework with configurable action listeners,
• Persistent event queues for the event framework,
• A new blog module and wiki engine supporting Google Wiki, Creole, MediaWiki, phpPP and Dotclear syntax,
• New mail UI components allowing to generate and send email easily with the ASF presentation pages,
• A new Javascript plugin Markedit with jQuery Markedit (MIT License)

This new version can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/ada-awa/downloads/list (downloading the awa-all package is recommended to get the project and its dependencies).

A demo of an AWA application is available at http://demo.vacs.fr/atlas/

Dynamo is a tool to help developers write an Ada Web Application using the Ada Server Faces and the Ada Database Objects frameworks. Dynamo provides several commands to perform one specific task in the development process: creation of an application, generation of database model, generation of Ada model, creation of database.

The new version of Dynamo provides:

• Support multi-line comments in XML mappings,
• Generate List_Bean types for the XML mapped queries,
• Add support for Ada enum generation,
• Add test template generation,
• Add AWA service template generation,
• Add support for blob model mapping,
• New command 'add-ajax-form', 'add-query', 'dist', 'create-plugin'

The Dynamo tool is available at http://code.google.com/p/ada-gen. To build Dynamo, you will need:

• Ada ASF 0.4.0
• Ada ADO 0.3.0
• Ada EL 1.4.0
• XML Ada 4.x or 3.x

The Ada Database Objects is an Object Relational Mapping for the Ada05 programming language. It allows to map database objects into Ada records and access databases easily. Most of the concepts developped for ADO come from the Java Hibernate ORM. ADO supports MySQL and SQLite databases.

The new version brings:

• Support to update database records when a field is really modified,
• Customization of the SQLite database connection by using SQLite PRAGMAs,
• Escape of MySQL or SQLite reserved keywords,
• Support for blob type.

This version can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/ada-ado/downloads/list.

Ada Server Faces is a web framework which uses the Java Server Faces design patterns (See JSR 252, JSR 314 or the latest one the JSR 344).

This new version brings a serious step ahead towards JSF compatibility. This new version provides:

• Support for shared or static build configuration,
• Support for file upload,
• New components <h:inputFile>, <f:metadata>, <f:viewParam>, <f:viewAction>,
• New EL function util:hasMessage,
• ASF now Implements the JSF phase events and phase listeners,
• Implements the JSF/Ruby on Rails flash context,
• Adds the pre-defined JSF beans: initParam, flash,
• Support for locales and honors the Accept-Language,
• New demos are available in French and English

It has been compiled and ported on Linux, Windows and Netbsd (gcc 4.4, GNAT 2011, gcc 4.6.2). You can download this new version at http://code.google.com/p/ada-asf/downloads/list.

A live demo is available at: http://demo.vacs.fr.

Feel free to play with the OpenID stuff!!!

Ada Utility Library is a collection of utility packages for Ada 2005. A new version is available which provides:

• Concurrent fifo queues and arrays
• Changed Objects.Maps to use a String instead of an Unbounded_String as the key
• Support for shared or static build configuration
• Implementation of input/output/error redirection to a file for process launch

It has been compiled and ported on Linux, Windows and Netbsd (gcc 4.4, GNAT 2011, gcc 4.6.2). You can download this new version at http://code.google.com/p/ada-util/downloads/list.

Ada Server Faces is a web framework which uses the Java Server Faces design patterns (See JSR 252 and JSR 314).

JSF and ASF use a component-based model for the design and implementation of a web application. The presentation layer is implemented using XML or XHTML files and the component layer is implemented in Ada 05 for ASF and in Java for JSF.

A new version of ASF is available which provides:

• New components used in HTML forms (textarea, select, label, hidden),
• New components for the AJAX framework,
• Support for dialog boxes with jQuery UI,
• Pre-defined beans in ASF contexts: param, header,
• A complete set of example and documentation for each tag.

It has been compiled and ported on Linux, Windows and Netbsd (gcc 4.4, GNAT 2011, gcc 4.6.2). You can download this new version at http://code.google.com/p/ada-asf/downloads/list.

A live demo is available at: http://demo.vacs.fr.

Ada Utility Library is a collection of utility packages for Ada 2005. A new version is available which provides:

• Support for localized date format,
• Support for process creation and pipe streams (on Unix and Windows),
• Support for CSV in the serialization framework,
• Integration of Ahven 2.1 for the unit tests (activate with --enable-ahven),
• A tool to generate perfect hash function

It has been compiled and ported on Linux, Windows and Netbsd (gcc 4.4, GNAT 2011, gcc 4.6.2). You can download this new version at http://code.google.com/p/ada-util/downloads/list.