A generic component framework for real-time control

A generic framework has been developed to allow the rapid development of high-performance real-time applications from coarse grained software components. The intercomponent communication overhead is extremely small. The different applications are assembled under the control of application deployment descriptors. These define what software components to load, what base objects to instantiate and how these objects are named and configured. They also define the interconnect between the instantiated base objects. Complementary development tools guarantee the datatype safety of the component interconnect. A high degree of software reuse enables the pursuit of feature-rich applications with high software quality.