SOFA (component system)
SOFA 2 is a component system developed by at Charles University in Prague. It provides many advanced features: ADL-based design, behavior specification and verification based on behavior protocols, software connectors supporting different communication styles and providing transparent distribution of applications. SOFA 2 can be used not only for modeling component-based applications but also as a complete framework supporting all the stages of an application lifecycle from development to execution.SOFA 2 basis
The SOFA 2 system includes a component model, repository of components, runtime environment and tool support.SOFA 2 component model is defined by means of its meta-model which captures core concepts and states relation among them.Repository
SOFA 2 provides a repository of a components which is automatically generated from the meta-model.Tool support
- Cushion - is a text-based tool which allows development of SOFA 2 applications and manipulation with a repository
- SOFA IDE - is a graphical tool
- MConsole - is a plugin for Eclipse monitoring and maintaining SOFA 2 runtime environment
SOFA application lifecycle
- application design
- component development, adaptation
- application assembly
- application deployment
- application execution - monitoring, maintaining
