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## What Information Does Understand for Ada Provide?

### Views of Your Project

Understand for Ada analyzes your Ada 83 or Ada 95 software and creates a database containing information about the entities and the relations between entities. The database can then be browsed using various "view" windows. The views are divided into four kinds:

- Information views show all that Understand for Ada knows about a given entity.
- Hierarchy views show relations between entities. Each view follows a relation (for instance "With") from the starting entity (that you inquired about) through its children and successors.
- Structure views quickly show the structure of any Ada entity that adds to the structure of your software (for instance a compilation unit, package, function, procedure, task).
- Source views show your Ada source in a hyperlinked fashion. They provide information when looking at the source code, or track source code when looking at other information.

Examples of each type are shown in this figure:

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