Programming the Internet in Ada 95 -- Reliability modeling for safety critical software -- Fault-tolerance by replication in distributed systems -- Ada95: An effective concurrent programming language -- Mapping HRT-HOOD® designs to Ada 95 hierarchical libraries -- An approach to increasing software component reusability in Ada -- Iterative software development for large Ada programs -- HCSD unit development process: Step-wise process improvement -- Testing Ada 95 programs for conformance to rapide architectures -- Tasking deadlocks in Ada 95 programs and their detection -- On some characterisation problems of subdomain testing -- A framework for testing object oriented software using formal specifications -- Ada95 and critical systems: An analytical approach -- Use of a static analysis tool for safety-critical Ada applications -- Secure communication in distributed Ada -- Using object oriented methods in Ada 95 to implement Linda -- Shared packages through Linda -- Drago: An Ada extension to program fault-tolerant distributed applications -- The dining philosophers in Ada 95 -- Using Ada 95 for prototyping real-time systems -- The GNARL implementation of POSIX/Ada signal services -- Implementing protected types on embedded targets -- ASIS for GNAT: From the prototype to the full implementation -- Handling irregular grammars in Ada -- Interprocedural call optimization -- Augmenting Ada95 with additional real-time features -- Beyond Ada95: The addition of persistence and its consequences -- Extending the object-orientedness of Ada 95 -- An Ada 95 view of some difficult or controversial points in object-oriented programming -- Where does GOTO Go to? -- Ada/O2 coupling: A solution for an efficient management of persistence in Ada 83 -- An Ada95 harness for converting legacy Fortran applications -- The funds management modernization: Experiences with developing an object oriented, client-server management information system in Ada95 -- Converting the part task nautical simulator to Ada95 -- Visibility control and migration of interfaces in large Ada systems -- Ada tasking and dynamic memory: To use or not to use, that's a question! -- Experiences applying a practical architectural method -- A decade of development and deployment of distributed Ada systems -- Planning the transition to Ada 95 for a large real-time project.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1996 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, held in Montreux, Switzerland, in June 1996. The 35 revised full papers selected for inclusion in the volume, along with four attractive invited papers, were contributed by researchers, developers, and users; they cover numerous aspects of the Ada 95 programming language and address various current topics of reliable software in general. Among the issues addressed are software development methods, verification and validation, safety and security, distributed systems, real-time systems, compilers and tools, the Ada 95 language, and interfaces to other worlds.