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- From: garth@helix.ObjecTime.on.ca (Garth Gullekson)
- Subject: Re: Real Time CASE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.151045.22894@ObjecTime.on.ca>
- Keywords: CASE
- Sender: news@ObjecTime.on.ca
- Reply-To: garth@ObjecTime.on.ca (Garth Gullekson)
- Organization: ObjecTime Limited
- References: <1992Dec14.123053@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:10:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.123053@axion.bt.co.uk>, cbrophy@axion.bt.co.uk (Connor Brophy) writes:
- |>
- |> I am writing a report on REAL-TIME CASE tools. I was wondering would anybody
- |> know any up to date books or references that I could use?
- |>
- |> ....
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |>
- |> Conor
-
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-
- Dear Connor Brophy,
-
- I recently saw your note in comp.realtime regarding the report you
- are writing on real-time CASE tools.
-
- You may be interested in ObjecTime, an object-oriented CASE tool for
- real-time systems originally developed by Bell-Northern Research and
- now a commercial tool vended by ObjecTime Limited. The following gives
- you a brief overview of the tool.
-
- If you want further information, I would be pleased to mail you a hard copy
- package of product material. If so, please give me your mailing address.
-
-
- Yours truly,
-
-
- Garth Gullekson
-
- ***********************************************************
- * ObjecTime: Object-Oriented CASE for Real-Time Systems *
- ***********************************************************
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-
- ObjecTime Summary
- -----------------
-
- ObjecTime 4.0 is a commercial object-oriented CASE tool specifically
- created for distributed, event-driven systems.
-
- ObjecTime supports an advanced methodology for the analysis and design
- of distributed, event-driven systems known as Real-Time Object-Oriented
- Modeling (ROOM). ROOM includes graphical design concepts and a
- highly-iterative development process which help to eliminate
- error-prone discontinuities between the various phases of software
- development. As a unique feature, ObjecTime enables the creation of
- executable analysis and design models that can be tested in an
- extensive workstation-based run-time environment.
-
- The high-level design concepts supported for real-time include
- concurrent objects (hierarchically decomposed) that communicate via
- messages through formal protocol definitions. Complex hierarchical
- finite-state machines specify the behavior of such objects, via major
- object-oriented extensions to the Statecharts formalism. Inheritance
- can be applied at the design component level, independent of the detail
- level programming language.
-
- The high-level object-oriented concepts are independent of programming
- language. Either C++ or Rapid Prototyping Language (based
- on Smalltalk-80) may be used at the detailed design level.
-
- ObjecTime is vended by ObjecTime Limited, an independent software
- company established as a spin-off from Bell-Northern Research (BNR),
- the R&D arm of Northern Telecom. The development of ObjecTime started
- in 1986 in a response to the needs of complex telecommunications
- software design. It has been marketed since early 1991.
-
- * * *
-
- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
-
- Garth Gullekson
- ObjecTime Limited
- 1-800-567-TIME
- sales@objectime.on.ca
-