Translating AADL systems to Java programs

Abstract

ADLs are used to describe system architectures at a very high level of abstraction. The concrete ADLs are interested in generating code from an architectural description. AADL is a concrete language designed for embedded applications. It integrates a software and hardware specifications in its description. Several studies around AADL are devoted to the development of executable systems from their architectural descriptions, like Ocarina project. On the other hand, Java language is widely used and supported by the majority of platforms. In this paper, we present a tool called: AADL2Java, allowing Java code generation from an AADL specification. For this purpose, first we take advantage of the EMF framework to specify two meta-models depicting respectively the concepts of AADL and Java. Then, these two meta-models will be used to generate a Java structure of an AADL specification. AADL2Java tool forms an Eclipse plug-in, aiming to facilitate the automatic translation of AADL systems in Java program skeletons, which may be easily completed by the developer. This will reduce the gap between software architect and developer in the system design.