The CommUnity Workbench

Abstract

CommUnity is a parallel program design language and framework that has been extended to provide a formal platform for the architectural design of open, reactive, reconfigurable systems. CommUnity programs are in the style of Unity programs, but they also combine elements from interacting processes. CommUnity also has a richer coordination model and it requires interactions between components to be made explicit. The CommUnity Workbench is being developed as a proof of concept of the framework, hiding the underlying "mathematical machinery" from the user. Currently, the tool provides a graphical integrated development environment to write CommUnity programs, draw a configuration, automatically calculate its co-limit and run it. The workbench prevents the creation of ill-formed configurations and gives great flexibility in testing CommUnity programs.