Ada Programming Support Environment Explained

Ada Programming Support Environment or APSE, was a specification for a programming environment to support software development in the Ada programming language. This represented the second stage of the U.S. military Ada project; once the language was implemented, it was felt necessary to specify and implement a standard set of tools, hence the APSE. CAIS-A, Common APSE Interface Set A, was defined in MIL STD-1838A.

CAIS defines a set of Ada APIs to enable portability of development tools across operating systems.^[1] As of 1988, CAIS implementations were developed for Unix, VMS and IBM MVS.

Further reading

• Richard E. Fairley . Ada debugging and testing support environments . Proceedings of the ACM-SIGPLAN symposium on The ADA programming language . 16 - 25 . 1980 . ACM . 0-89791-030-3 . 10.1145/800004.807931 .
• International Requirements and Design Criteria for the Portable Common Interface Set (1992-05-01)
• DoD Requirements and Design Criteria for the Common APSE Interface Set (CAIS) (July 1987)
  • • • • • Munck. Robert. Oberndorf. Patricia. Ploedereder. Erhard. Thall. Richard. 1989-02-03. An overview of DOD-STD-1838A (proposed) the common APSE interface set: revision. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. en. 24. 2. 235–247. 10.1145/64140.65025.

Notes and References

1. Oberndorf. P.A.. June 1988. The Common Ada Programming Support Environment (APSE) Interface Set (CAIS). IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. en-US. 14. 6. 742–748. 10.1109/32.6154. 0098-5589.