Guidelines for a Minimal Ada Runtime Environment.

Abstract

The study is intended to define the characteristics of an Ada Runtime Environment that effectively supports the development of real-time applications. The study was undertaken with the specific objective of supporting the selection of a runtime environment for the JINTACCS Automated Message Preparation System (JAMPS) program, but provides results useful in any real-time system acquisition program. A major goal of the JAMPS Ada software acquisition is to develop highly portable and reusable implementation that can be used in many different military systems. This goal impacts the selection and use of the runtime environment, as dependence on particular features of the runtime environment (either for functionality or performance) limits portability to only those systems providing the same features. This results in the concept of a minimal set of runtime environment features necessary to support JAMPS. Implementing JAMPS with dependence only on these features will allow portability within the class of systems providing those features. This report identifies such a minimal set of environment features. Keywords: fault tolerant computing; input output processing; data storage systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA160451

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  • V. Grover

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  • SofTech, Inc.

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  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Application Software
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Device Drivers
  • Embedded Systems
  • Fault Tolerance
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  • Systems Engineering

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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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