Tailoring an architectural middleware platform to a heterogeneous embedded environment

Embedded systems are rapidly growing in size, complexity, distribution, and heterogeneity. As a result, the traditional practice of developing one-off embedded applications that are often rigid and unmanageable is no longer acceptable. Recent studies have suggested that an effective approach to developing software systems in this domain is to employ the principles of software architecture. However, for software architectural concepts to be truly useful in a development setting, they must be accompanied by support for their implementation and evolution. This has motivated our work over the past several years on an architectural middleware, called Prism-MW, that provides implementation-level support for the development of software systems in terms of the software architectural constructs (e.g., components, connectors). Prism-MW was initially developed in Java and used in several domains. Recently, as part of an on-going project, we were required to implement Prism-MW in ANSI C++. This e...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EDO
• Authors: Sam Malek, Chiyoung Seo, Nenad Medvidovic
• Keywords: Architectural Middleware, Distributed And Parallel Computing, EDO 2006, Software, Software Systems