Real-Time Java from an Automated Code Generation Perspective

In this paper we investigate the fitness criteria of programming languages used as the target platform in a model-driven engineering process that includes automated code generation. We are in particular interested in the fitness of the Real-Time Specification for Java, which combines the Java object-oriented semantics with a fairly rich concurrency model. We contend that the impact of the target programming language for the development of highly-critical real-time systems is becoming smaller and smaller as new model-driven engineering frameworks emerge.