GNAVI
Encyclopedia
GNAVI is an open source
visual software development environment
, like Delphi
and Visual Basic
. It is licensed under the GPL
. The language foundation of GNAVI is Ada, a Pascal derived language used commonly in defense and aviation. It is the intention of the GNAVI community to promote the use of Ada amongst wider programming audiences. GNAVI for Microsoft Windows
aims to offer comparable features to Delphi and Visual Basic including the use of Active X controls and the ability to interface with .NET and Java
. GNAVI is also currently being ported to Mac OS X
, Linux
and other Unix-like
operating system
s.
The GNAVI website had seen no activity or releases for four and a half years, from December 2004 until the beginning of 2009—but on 14 March 2009 the community announced that it resumed development.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
visual software development environment
Development environment
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, like Delphi
Borland Delphi
Embarcadero Delphi is an integrated development environment for console, desktop graphical, web, and mobile applications.Delphi's compilers use its own Object Pascal dialect of Pascal and generate native code for 32- and 64-bit Windows operating systems, as well as 32-bit Mac OS X and iOS...
and Visual Basic
Visual Basic
Visual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model...
. It is licensed under the GPL
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
. The language foundation of GNAVI is Ada, a Pascal derived language used commonly in defense and aviation. It is the intention of the GNAVI community to promote the use of Ada amongst wider programming audiences. GNAVI for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
aims to offer comparable features to Delphi and Visual Basic including the use of Active X controls and the ability to interface with .NET and Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
. GNAVI is also currently being ported to Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
, Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and other Unix-like
Unix-like
A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....
operating system
Operating system
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s.
The GNAVI website had seen no activity or releases for four and a half years, from December 2004 until the beginning of 2009—but on 14 March 2009 the community announced that it resumed development.