The real transition problem or don't blame Ada

Development of real-time systems is expensive and difficult, in part because of low-level languages that force developers to use facilities that are ad hoc, incomplete, and not portable. The Real-Time Systems Annex of Ada 2005 (along with the language ...

In this paper we address the problem of combining two issues that are standardized separately in two Ada 95 annexes: Real-Time Systems (Annex D) and Distributed Systems (Annex E). With these annexes it is possible to build applications with real-time ...

Standards for distribution middleware sometimes impose restrictions and often allow the implementations to decide on aspects that are fundamental to the correct and efficient behaviour of the applications using them, especially when these applications ...