Towards model-based and CCM-based applications for real-time systems

New advances in software component and modeling standards promise to ease the burden of development complexity while improving flexibility and reliability. These solutions raise the level of abstraction from object-oriented classes to coarser components and support the creation and configuration of systems using modeling or other specification standards. This paper outlines the challenges inherent in the original Bold Stroke component model developed in the late 1990´s and then discusses an evolved component model that leverages work being done in the Object Management Group (OMG) and in government funded research that addresses these issues in a distributed real-time embedded (DRE) application context.