Fast creation of distributed services: SDL to ANSA translation

Communication networks are in continuous progress with the aim of providing a wider variety of services to satisfy the demands of large numbers of very different users. With increasingly complex systems and increasingly competitive markets, software developers face a difficult challenge: how to create services more quickly, at lower cost, that will be of top-level quality and may be improved easily. Based on two tools, our goal was to expedite the creation of distributed services, by translating the files generated in a formal specification environment (GEODE), at the moment a service is specified, into files supported by a distributed architecture (ANSA), for subsequent implementation. A description of the most important concepts of the two software packages is given and an implementation for the intended translation is presented