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The Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) supports concurrency mainly by using object-oriented mechanisms. Hence it entangles with functional components. This crosscutting nature does not promote coherence and traceability between real-time systems requirement specifications, designs, and implementations. Such qualities are only possible by separating it. We show how to separate concurrency, a non-functional concern, from thread-safe functional concerns using “aspectisation”. The paper’s contributions are in devising a systematic separation approach, and elaboration of challenges and requirements for “pluggable” concurrency.
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Shah, N. (2008). Aspectising Concurrency for the RTSJ. In: Garg, V., Wattenhofer, R., Kothapalli, K. (eds) Distributed Computing and Networking. ICDCN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92295-7_12
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