Towards Architectural Programming of Embedded Systems
This addresses the problem of simplifying development for embedded systems engineers by reducing complexity in combining architectural and programming views, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts like architectural description and Java integration.
The paper tackles the integration of architectural design with programming languages for distributed, asynchronous systems, resulting in a unified view that combines architecture, data structure, and behavior without needing mappings between views, as demonstrated by a prototypical compiler.
Integrating architectural elements with a modern programming language is essential to ensure a smooth combination of architectural design and programming. In this position statement, we motivate a combination of architectural description for distributed, asynchronously communicating systems and Java as an example for such an integration. The result is an ordinary programming language, that exhibits architecture, data structure and behavior within one view. Mappings or tracing between different views is unnecessary. A prototypical implementation of a compiler demonstrates the possibilities and challenges of architectural programming.