High-Level Reuse in the Design of an Object-Oriented Real-Time System Framework

Abstract

Reuse is one of the major strategies to increase software productivity. Object-oriented techniques provide sound mechanism to support the possibility of reuse. Yet, in order to promote the effectiveness and scale of reuse, augmenting the level of reuse, augmenting the level of reuse is a promising direction to endeavor. In the implementation of our Object-Oriented Real-Time System Framework(OORTSF), we have attempted to design a reusable object-oriented software framework for embedded real-time applications. Later, with the proliferation of design patterns, we found the concept of design patterns be helpful in the documentation and assessment of our design. Besides, from the aspect of promoting the applicability of our framework, we found that through adapting our framework for some open software architecture, like CORBA. We can setup a path to extend the reusability of our OORTSF towards distributed systems. In our experience, design pattern, framework, and architecture complement each other and will become a synergy of object-oriented technologies.