interface, does an interface exist in Ada?
Yes. DIS is a standard for communications between simulators using an Internet Protocol network (IP). DIS provides a unified virtual environment for multiple simulator users on a network. It is used mostly in the DoD simulations business, but it is applicable to ANY simulation. It is an industry initiative involving military training and procurement organisations, simulator vendors and universities mostly in the US, but the technology is unclassified. The US Army is funding quite a bit of DIS research and development. The Institute of Simulation and Training, URL http://www.tiig.ist.ucf.edu/ is a center at the University of Central Florida (UCF) which serves as the support contractor for the UCF IST, as are BBS’s for the DIS working groups who are attempting to push those standards forward. The BBS contains an Ada binding for DIS. Note that the above provides a thin binding to C code. It may be worthwhile to take the time to make high-level DIS bindings. Ted Dennison, dennison@escmail.
