Embedded opportunities -- Ada+B the formula for safety critical software development -- Porting the GNAT tasking runtime system to the Java virtual machine -- Automating the Ada binding process for Java — How far can we go? -- Synchronizing multiple clients and servers -- How to avoid the inheritance anomaly in Ada -- Inside the distributed systems annex -- Integrating groups and transactions: A fault-tolerant extension of Ada -- Implementing and using execution time clocks in Ada hard real-time applications -- Programming hard real-time systems with optional components in Ada -- Object oriented abstractions for real-time distributed systems -- (Astro)physical supercomputing: Ada95 as a safe, object oriented alternative -- Ada 95 for a distributed simulation system -- PINROB: A portable API for industrial robots -- Quality-for-ASIS: A portable testing facility for ASIS -- Ten years of tool based Ada compiler validations an experience report -- A two-level matching mechanism for object-oriented class libraries -- Modern Avionics requirements for the Distributed Systems Annex -- A case study in quantitative evaluation of real-time software architectures -- Building modular communication systems in Ada: The Simple-Com approach -- Symbolic reaching definitions analysis of Ada programs -- Looking at code with your safety goggles on -- The Ravenscar tasking profile for high integrity real-time programs -- Guidance on the use of Ada95 in high integrity systems -- Ada in the JAS 39 Gripen flight control system.

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 1998 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe'98, held in Uppsala, Sweden, in June 1998. The 23 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully selected by the program committee. The papers address all current aspects of the Ada programming language; they are organized in sections on Ada 95 and Java, Ada 95 language and tools, distributed systems, real-time systems, case studies and experiments, software quality, software development, software architectures, and high integrity systems.