Jim Bladen of TeleSoft gave a presentation about the TeleSoft ASIS Pilot Program. He also gave a sampling of ASIS Toolkit user success stories, some of which were given in detail later in the evening by the appropriate company representative. Those vendors not present but who were part of the TeleSoft program included VSF Ltd, McDonnell Douglas, and Odyssey Research Associates. TeleSoft is currently implementing a direct link rather than a client-server model of their ASIS implementation. This tool automates the construction of distributed applications.
Distribution is done on a library package basis.
The use of ASIS substantially reduced development time. They have a set of semantic tools to perform a detailed analysis of exception handling. Their application is used for the evaluation of exceptions propagation including tasking and generics. Brian noted that most of the issues he discussed have been addressed in ASIS 1.1. Alex Blakemore of Genoa Software Systems presented his Experiences with ASIS and the Ada Quality Toolset.