An integrated environment for the complete development cycle of an object-oriented distributed real-time system

Abstract

This paper describes a powerful integrated development environment that covers all steps of the development of an object-oriented real-time application from initial design to the final evaluation. The system consists of a set of integrated tools for modeling, simulation, implementation, instrumentation, monitoring, and visualization that all work on the same OO system model. As all steps of creating a running implementation with visualized monitoring output from the design model are automatic, the environment encourages an iterative approach to the design of complex real-time control applications. This complete environment has been accomplished by integrating the SIMOO-RT modeling, simulation and implementation environment, developed at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, with the Jewel++ object-oriented instrumentation and monitoring tool from GMD, St. Augustin, Germany. The work has been done in the context of the ADOORATA project (A Distributed Object-Oriented Architecture for Real-Time Automation), a Brazilian-German cooperation.