Gnatbench 2.3.1 supports Workbench and Vxworks

The company said this release supports Workbench 3.1 and Vxworks 6.7, the latest versions of Wind River's Eclipse-based IDE and real-time operating system.

This is said to offer real-time/embedded systems developers a sophisticated Ada programming environment integrated into the Wind River Workbench development suite.

It also supports Workbench 3.0 and Vxworks 6.6, allowing projects that have selected those versions to upgrade to Gnatbench 2.3.1.

The Gnatbench plug-in provides editing, browsing, and building features for Ada development (including Ada 2005) using Adacore's Gnat Pro toolset on the Eclipse platform.

The builder produces executables for native systems and embedded processors (in the context of Wind River Workbench), and likewise the debugger supports both native and embedded system debugging.

Gnatbench 2.3.1 has introduced a variety of enhancements that help Ada software development run more smoothly.

Creating Workbench projects for Ada is said to be much simpler and more robust; there is no need to duplicate the use of new-project wizards in both Workbench and Gnatbench.

Error handling in the Import Wizard is friendlier, since Gnatbench parses an imported project file for errors before attempting the import.

The sharing of projects among multiple developers using distinct Workbench (Eclipse) workspaces is simplified, since the values of a project's scenario variables (when changed from their defaults) are now stored in workspace-persistent variables.

As an open-source project, the code of the implementation has been re-organised so users wishing to extend the implementation can identify which parts may be relied upon to remain stable in the future.